Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which ameliorates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who ameliorates.
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- noun A person who, or thing which
ameliorates
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Examples
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I am the General Entertainer, but she is the ameliorator of those little roughnesses, those little sharp corners which cling even to unconventional people.
The Inner Sisterhood A Social Study in High Colors George Douglass Sherley 1887
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Dowd is an ameliorator: one who believes we triumph by reason, logic and action.
Scientific Blogging 2009
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He has restrained the last-days rush to set new environmental rules, at some cost to his reputation as ameliorator.
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And the system that doled out those rewards had broad acceptance, especially since progressive taxation dampened some of the inequalities of pre-tax incomes, and the economies of mass production made goods available to the non-rich that were every bit as serviceable as those purchased by those with very high incomes - a great ameliorator of that old devil, envy.
New Statesman Irwin Stelzer 2009
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“Sergei,” began Karganov, the ameliorator, “we have all devoted our lives to our country.
State of the Union Brad Thor 2004
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“Sergei,” began Karganov, the ameliorator, “we have all devoted our lives to our country.
State of the Union Brad Thor 2004
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“Sergei,” began Karganov, the ameliorator, “we have all devoted our lives to our country.
State of the Union Brad Thor 2004
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