Both Uses of
ameliorate
in
Selected Essays
- 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.
Chpt 3. *amelioration = improvement
- This is that which throws him into natural history, as a main production of the globe, and as announcing new eras and ameliorations.†
Chpt 9.ameliorations = improvements
Definition:
to improve -- especially a bad situation