Definitions for meliorism

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meliorism mel·io·rism

Spelling: [meel-yuh-riz-uh m, mee-lee- Meliorism is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 289 anagrams from letters in meliorism (eiilmmors).

Definitions for meliorism

noun

1. the doctrine that the world tends to become better or may be made better by human effort.

Origin of meliorism

1855-60; Latin melior better + -ism

Examples for meliorism

Be they false or be they true, the meaning of them is this meliorism.

As an inevitable result of all the influences that constitute his world he finds himself yearning for meliorism as the crownpiece.

So he becomes the eloquent apostle of meliorism, proclaiming his gospel without abatement.

meliorism, the theory that there is in nature a tendency to better and better development.

meliorism treats salvation as neither inevitable nor impossible.

meliorism,—the desire to better the conditions of life for themselves and for their children—animated them.