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Definition of Meliorating
1. meliorate [v] - See also: meliorate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meliorating
Literary usage of Meliorating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As it Exists Both by James Stephen (1824)
"(meliorating Act of Dominica, passed in 1788 — revived and made perpetual in 1793.
... See also the Grenada meliorating Act, Clause 14, and the Bahama Ait, ..."
2. The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As it Exists Both by James Stephen (1824)
"(meliorating Act of Dominica, passed in 1788— revived and made perpetual in 1793.
... See also the Grenada meliorating Act, Clause 14, and the Bahama Ait, ..."
3. The Presbyterian Magazine by William Neill (1822)
"834 American Society for meliorating MAT, gat ion was dismissed, Christians were
requested to retire to an upper room, and spend a few minutes in prayer; ..."
4. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1835)
"The scheme of Colonization, indeed,—any more than the design of meliorating the
condition of that people at large,—could not have been destroyed. ..."
5. Negro Slavery by Zachary Macaulay (1823)
"... of the colonial legislatures were induced so far to yield a decent compliance
with the Royal requisition, as to pass what they called meliorating acts. ..."
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