Both Uses of
ameliorate
in
Leaves of Grass
- Amelioration is one of the earth's words, The earth neither lags nor hastens, It has all attributes, growths, effects, latent in itself from the jump, It is not half beautiful only, defects and excrescences show just as much as perfections show.†
Chpt 16
- All, all for immortality, Love like the light silently wrapping all, Nature's amelioration blessing all, The blossoms, fruits of ages, orchards divine and certain, Forms, objects, growths, humanities, to spiritual images ripening.†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
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(ameliorate) to improve -- especially a bad situation