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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
meliorate .
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Examples
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As I read Smith, economic liberty meliorates aspects of that feudal order, and allows people to achieve a morally better grade of stoicism, but it hardly *produces* social order.
The Fragility and Robustness of Modernity - The Austrian Economists 2005
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The distance the N.W. wind has to travel to this country, and the opposition it meets with from those mountains, in a great measure meliorates and destroys those penetrating qualities, which make this wind so formidable to the Atlantic States.
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She meliorates the race, so that dogs and cats will learn in the end that it is less dull to frequent a poet than an unhappy Collège de France candidate -- had this candidate proven more copiously still, that the author of "Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe" had topsyturvily described the jawbone of the Crocodile_.
Barks and Purrs 1873-1954 Colette 1913
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It meliorates and sweetens obedience, and makes it come off with a better relish.
The Ten Commandments 1692
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It meliorates and sweetens all the duties of religion, it makes them savoury meat, without which God cares not to taste them.
The Ten Commandments 1692
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It is thought that the climate meliorates in the same latitude as one proceeds from the Atlantic a»/j NIBEQUETEN, a river of the kingdom of Chile.
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A fecret virtue, that attradts my eye And meliorates my heart.
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At first further effort seemed useless, but as time meliorates in some degree even the most deplorable and distressing physical conditions, ambition slowly rallied, and while lying for several months a patient in various hospitals in an ineffectual attempt to regain even partial sight, the following ideas and efforts of past years were gradually recalled from the recesses of memory, and reduced to their present form, in which, with no small hesitation and misgiving, they are presented to the consideration of the reading public, which in the humble opinion of the author has frequently failed to receive and appreciate productions of vastly superior merit.
Mountain idylls, and Other Poems Alfred Castner King
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Yesterday not a bird peeped; the world was barren, peaked, and pining: to-day 't is inconceivably populous; creation swarms and meliorates. "
The Life Radiant Lilian Whiting
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The incense of our love and respect for them creates the atmosphere of our souls, which corrects and meliorates the beams of knowledge. "
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 Thomas Moore 1815
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