All 4 Uses of
ameliorate
in
Les Miserables
- 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†
Chpt 1.1amelioration = improvement
- Philosophy should be an energy; it should have for effort and effect to ameliorate the condition of man.
Chpt 2.7 *ameliorate = improve
- 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.†
Chpt 3.7amelioration = improvement
- 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."†
Chpt 5.5
Definition:
to improve -- especially a bad situation