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Definition of Meliorative
1. Adjective. Tending to ameliorate.
Similar to: Bettering
Derivative terms: Ameliorate, Ameliorate, Ameliorate, Ameliorate, Meliorate, Meliorate
Definition of Meliorative
1. Adjective. That meliorates; curative, salutary. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Meliorative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meliorative
Literary usage of Meliorative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Suffixes Mant and Vant in Sanskrit and Avestan by Harold Herman Bender (1910)
"In '2 % of all mant and vant possessives the suffixes give to the original word,
in addition to the idea of possession, a meliorative or ..."
2. The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions by Thorstein Veblen (1912)
"Their effect might be traced through the entire range of that schedule of
non-invidious, meliorative enterprise that is so considerable a feature, ..."
3. Savings and Savings Institutions by James Henry Hamilton (1902)
"Many of our meliorative schemes are likely to prove Utopian in the place where their
... The present meliorative movement might be described as a demand for ..."