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ameliorate
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  • Honour to those indefatigable spirits who consecrate their vigils to the amelioration or to the alleviation of their kind!   (source)
    amelioration = improvement
  • Schools were established among them, and benevolent societies were active in efforts to ameliorate their condition.   (source)
    ameliorate = improve
  • I sought to improve her manners and ameliorate her general tone; she (supported in this likewise by her relations) resented my endeavours.   (source)
  • I felt the greatest eagerness to hear the promised narrative, partly from curiosity and partly from a strong desire to ameliorate his fate if it were in my power.   (source)
  • It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration.   (source)
    amelioration = improvement
  • There is a closer tie than is commonly supposed between the improvement of the soul and the amelioration of what belongs to the body.   (source)
  • So the thin, graying ringlets were loosened around the meagre forehead, and indeed Mandy's appearance was considerably ameliorated.†   (source)
  • To the extent that amelioration is happening, it's quite a contrast with the prejudice of two generations ago.†   (source)
  • Those acts were against God, and he and his woman were about to face Him; there had to be certain ameliorating circumstances.†   (source)
  • They had never been terribly eager to meet Isabelle's vampire boyfriend, a situation that hadn't done much to ameliorate Simon's feeling that he was merely the latest in a long line of undesirable suitors.†   (source)
  • OOTEK'S ACCEPTANCE of me had an ameliorating effect upon Mike's attitude.†   (source)
  • There was, however, an ameliorating support system.   (source)
    ameliorating = tending to improve a bad situation
  • And even though Garrow was dead, doing so relieved Eragon, gave him a sense of closure, and helped to ameliorate his distress over Morzan.†   (source)
  • Preston sees another amelioration of attitudes to the South based on a kind of romanticizing: "There's this popular urge among Americans: they don't want to sound stuffy.†   (source)
  • I wish to investigate his confused affairs so far as to ascertain whether it may not be possible, after this lapse of time, to ameliorate his unhappy condition.†   (source)
    ameliorate = improve
  • Bad writers, and especially scientific, political and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones, and unnecessary words like EXPEDITE, AMELIORATE, PREDICT, EXTRANEOUS, DERACINATED, CLANDESTINE, SUB-AQUEOUS and hundreds of others constantly gain ground from their Anglo-Saxon opposite numbers.†   (source)
  • Some years ago several pious individuals undertook to ameliorate the condition of the prisons.†   (source)
  • I have heard that Liebig has made some wonderful discoveries in the amelioration of soils.†   (source)
  • The idea of novelty is there indissolubly connected with the idea of amelioration.†   (source)
  • "How about those ameliorations," said I; "what were they?†   (source)
  • Still, it had its ameliorations.†   (source)
  • And these seized upon him at times as definitely and poignantly as though they were voices of accusation or complaint—so much so that he could not help but suggest by way of amelioration that he would like to see her and that he was coming around that night if she were going to be home.†   (source)
  • Mason now proposed to remain absolutely silent regarding this information, and that about the camera and films and the data regarding Clyde's offense in Kansas City, until nearer the day of trial, or during the trial itself, when it would be impossible for the defense to attempt either to refute or ameliorate it in any way.†   (source)
  • There is always an inertia to be overcome in striking out a new line of conduct—not more in ourselves, it seems, than in circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration.†   (source)
  • aim for those who would better the world was a condition of equality; in their impatience and despair they managed to convince themselves that if they could by hook or by crook get the machinery of production and the management of property so altered that the 'lower classes' (so the horrible word ran) might have their slavery somewhat ameliorated, they would be ready to fit into this machinery, and would use it for bettering their condition still more and still more, until at last the result would be a practical equality (they were very fond of using the word 'practical'), because 'the rich' would be forced to pay so much for keeping 'the poor' in a tolerable condition that the conditio†   (source)
  • That is the rationale of the system of charging which has hitherto obtained; and nothing is more offensive than this ostentation of reform, where there is no real amelioration.†   (source)
  • It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their organs simultaneously, by their amelioration of the real, as well as by their contemplation of the absolute.†   (source)
  • This is that which throws him into natural history, as a main production of the globe, and as announcing new eras and ameliorations.†   (source)
  • Apply yourselves, above all, to the amelioration of the soil, to good manures, to the development of the equine, bovine, ovine, and porcine races.†   (source)
  • Not indeed that an aristocratic people absolutely contests man's faculty of self-improvement, but they do not hold it to be indefinite; amelioration they conceive, but not change: they imagine that the future condition of society may be better, but not essentially different; and whilst they admit that mankind has made vast strides in improvement, and may still have some to make, they assign to it beforehand certain impassable limits.†   (source)
  • These men left their first country to improve their condition; they quit their resting-place to ameliorate it still more; fortune awaits them everywhere, but happiness they cannot attain.†   (source)
  • And, gentlemen, I do not mean that superficial intelligence, vain ornament of idle minds, but rather that profound and balanced intelligence that applies itself above all else to useful objects, thus contributing to the good of all, to the common amelioration and to the support of the state, born of respect for law and the practice of duty—†   (source)
  • The workers forced their masters to grant them ameliorations, real or imaginary, of their condition, but could not force freedom from them.†   (source)
  • By dint of discussing political matters, vaguely and without precision, from the point of view of the general amelioration of the fate of all men, they came to say a little more than "yes" and "no."†   (source)
  • But if, whilst the ranks of society are becoming more equal, the education of the people remains incomplete, or their spirit the reverse of bold—if commerce and industry, checked in their growth, afford only slow and arduous means of making a fortune—the various members of the community, despairing of ameliorating their own condition, rush to the head of the State and demand its assistance.†   (source)
  • livres Society of the mission ......100 " For the Lazarists of Montdidier ......100 " Seminary for foreign missions in Paris ......200 " Congregation of the Holy Spirit ......150 " Religious establishments of the Holy Land ......100 " Charitable maternity societies ......300 " Extra, for that of Arles ......50 " Work for the amelioration of prisons ......400 " Work for the relief and delivery of prisoners ...500 " To liberate fathers of families incarcerated for debt 1,000 " Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of the diocese ......2,000 " Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes ......100 " Congregation of the ladies of D—, of Manosque, and of Sisteron, for the gratuitou†   (source)
  • In the absence of positive documents, we may form an opinion as to the proportion which the taxation of a people bears to its real prosperity, by observing whether its external appearance is flourishing; whether, after having discharged the calls of the State, the poor man retains the means of subsistence, and the rich the means of enjoyment; and whether both classes are contented with their position, seeking, however, to ameliorate it by perpetual exertions, so that industry is never in want of capital, nor capital unemployed by industry.†   (source)
  • In these small communities, which are never agitated by the desire of aggrandizement or the cares of self-defence, all public authority and private energy is employed in internal amelioration.†   (source)
  • In the one, amelioration and progress are the general topics of inquiry; in the other, it seems as if the community only aspired to repose in the enjoyment of the advantages which it has acquired.†   (source)
  • In America certain ameliorations are undertaken with much more zeal and activity than elsewhere; in Europe the same ends are promoted by much less social effort, more continuously applied.†   (source)
  • When, on the contrary, the people is invested with the supreme authority, the perpetual sense of their own miseries impels the rulers of society to seek for perpetual ameliorations.†   (source)
  • This spirit of amelioration is constantly alive in the American republics, without compromising their tranquillity; the ambition of power yields to the less refined and less dangerous love of comfort.†   (source)
  • New ameliorations are daily pointed out in the property which he holds in common with others, and this gives him the desire of improving that property which is more peculiarly his own.†   (source)
  • The present Constitution of the Union was formed at a later period than those of the majority of the States, and it may have derived some ameliorations from past experience.†   (source)
  • Population does not increase, and the thinly scattered inhabitants are too much absorbed in the cares of self-defense even to attempt any amelioration of their condition.†   (source)
  • The nation, taken as a whole, will be less brilliant, less glorious, and perhaps less strong; but the majority of the citizens will enjoy a greater degree of prosperity, and the people will remain quiet, not because it despairs of amelioration, but because it is conscious of the advantages of its condition.†   (source)
  • How The Unlimited Power Of The Majority Increases In America The Instability Of Legislation And Administration Inherent In Democracy The Americans increase the mutability of the laws which is inherent in democracy by changing the legislature every year, and by investing it with unbounded authority—The same effect is produced upon the administration—In America social amelioration is conducted more energetically but less perseveringly than in Europe.†   (source)
  • In these States it is not only a portion of the people which is busied with the amelioration of its social condition, but the whole community is engaged in the task; and it is not the exigencies and the convenience of a single class for which a provision is to be made, but the exigencies and the convenience of all ranks of life.†   (source)
  • the first element of national prosperity—Aim of the Federal system to unite the twofold advantages resulting from a small and from a large territory—Advantages derived by the United States from this system—The law adapts itself to the exigencies of the population; population does not conform to the exigencies of the law—Activity, amelioration, love and enjoyment of freedom in the American communities—Public spirit of the Union the abstract of provincial patriotism—Principles and things circulate freely over the territory of the United States—The Union is happy and free as a little nation, and respected as a great empire.†   (source)
  • and mechanically the impulses of those habits, we shall describe objects, and utter sentiments, of such a nature and in such connection with each other, that the understanding of the being to whom we address ourselves, if he be in a healthful state of association, must necessarily be in some degree enlightened, and his affections ameliorated.†   (source)
  • In loose allwool garments with Harris tweed cap, price 8/6, and useful garden boots with elastic gussets and wateringcan, planting aligned young firtrees, syringing, pruning, staking, sowing hayseed, trundling a weedladen wheelbarrow without excessive fatigue at sunset amid the scent of newmown hay, ameliorating the soil, multiplying wisdom, achieving longevity.†   (source)
  • [13] In his American edition of 1866 Dr. Alford withdrew this reference to the Civil War and somewhat ameliorated his indignation otherwise, but he clung to the main counts in his indictment, and most Englishmen, I daresay, still give them a certain support†   (source)
  • The average American, I believe, has a larger vocabulary of profanity than the average Englishman, and swears a good deal more, but he attempts an amelioration of many of his oaths by softening them to forms with no apparent meaning.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • A failure in this delicate and important point is the great source of the inconveniences we experience, and if we are not cautious to avoid a repetition of the error, in our future attempts to rectify and ameliorate our system, we may travel from one chimerical project to another; we may try change after change; but we shall never be likely to make any material change for the better.†   (source)
  • To this catalogue of circumstances that tend to the amelioration of popular systems of civil government, I shall venture, however novel it may appear to some, to add one more, on a principle which has been made the foundation of an objection to the new Constitution; I mean the ENLARGEMENT of the ORBIT within which such systems are to revolve, either in respect to the dimensions of a single State or to the consolidation of several smaller States into one great Confederacy.†   (source)
  • MARY WARREN: "Goody Osburn will hang!"
    ...
    PROCTOR: "The Deputy Governor will permit it?"
    MARY WARREN: "He sentenced her. He must."
    To ameliorate it: "But not Sarah Good. For Sarah Good confessed, y'see."   (source)
    ameliorate = (say something) to improve a bad situation
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