n. One who accepts the practical or the theoretical doctrine of meliorism.
Of or pertaining to meliorism or meliorists.
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n. a disputant who advocates reform
Word Usage
"No question but the novelist would have welcomed as a convincing proof of her 'meliorist' doctrine the progress made in her own homeland in the century since her birth."