Definitions for melioration

melioration mel·io·ra·tion

Spelling: [meel-yuh-rey-shuh n, mee-lee-uh-]
IPA: /ˌmil yəˈreɪ ʃən, ˌmi li ə-/

Melioration is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 1047 anagrams from letters in melioration (aeiilmnoort).

Definitions for melioration

noun

  1. Historical Linguistics. semantic change in a word to a more approved or more respectable meaning. Compare pejoration (def 2).
  2. amelioration.

Origin of melioration

1620-30; Late Latin meliōrātiōn- (stem of meliōrātiō), equivalent to meliōrāt(us) (see meliorate) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for melioration

Peace followed victory, and the melioration of the condition of the enemy followed peace.

The principle of the one, in short, was melioration; of the other, conservation.

And every where her influence is felt, in the melioration of the public mind, as in the limited circle at the home fire-side.

On that day ministers communicated their plans for the melioration of Irish suffering.

Every circumstance conspired to this melioration of the art in Florence as well as in other places.

Every melioration of the slave's lot is a step toward freedom.

All is quiet in Holland and Belgium; and all is awaiting the melioration which time and wisdom must bring.

I should like to think this melioration came through our sense of justice, but I cannot claim that it did.

It is no less an evidence that their condition was in a state of melioration.

May every sun that shines on your green island see the annihilation of an abuse, and the birth of an embryon of melioration!

Word Value for melioration
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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