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n. The act or process of improving something or the state of being improved.

n. An improvement.

n. The linguistic process by which a word over a period of time grows more elevated in meaning or more positive in connotation.

n. An improvement, betterment or amelioration

n. The process in which a term gains a more positive connotation over time

n. The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement.

n. The act or process of making or becoming better; improvement; amelioration.

n. plural In Scots law, improvements made by a tenant upon the property which he rents, and for which he is in certain cases entitled to compensation from the landlord.

n. the act of relieving ills and changing for the better

n. a condition superior to an earlier condition

n. the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning

"Instances, rare instances, of such "melioration" and of such "schools of instruction," I doubt not there have been: but, I am confident, that the"

improvement    drift   

improvement   

assuagement    quell    stucture    counteroffer    quickener    health-resort    industrialization    admissibility    anecdotage    best-hearted