Definitions for meliorations

meliorations mel·io·ra·tion

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

Meliorations is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 2235 anagrams from letters in meliorations (aeiilmnoorst).

Definitions for meliorations

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 meliorations

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

Examples for meliorations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for meliorations
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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