Melioration Definition & Meaning

melioration
noun
  1. the act of relieving ills and changing for the better
  2. a condition superior to an earlier condition; "the new school represents a great improvement"
  3. the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning

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