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countable and uncountable, plural ameliorations
The act of making better. quotations examples
The tumult was over, and all things returned to their old place; and the abuse remained without remedy, and the wrong without redress. Ah! if the doctrine of amelioration be true, what a mighty debt does the future owe to the past!
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 262
An improvement. examples
(linguistics) The process by which a term gains a more positive connotation over time. examples
(philosophy) An ameliorative change of a concept or a repertoire of concepts. examples