amelioration

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See also: amélioration

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Etymology

From French amélioration.

Pronunciation

Noun

Examples (linguistics)
  • Middle English nyce (“foolish”) → English nice (“kind”)

amelioration (countable and uncountable, plural ameliorations)

  1. The act of making better.
    Antonym: deterioration
    • 1834, L E L, chapter XXXII, in Francesca Carrara. , volume III, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 262:
      The tumult was over, and all things returned to their old place; and the abuse remained without remedy, and the wrong without redress. Ah! if the doctrine of amelioration be true, what a mighty debt does the future owe to the past!
  2. An improvement.
    Synonym: revamp
  4. (linguistics) The process by which a term gains a more positive connotation over time.
    Antonym: pejoration
  5. (philosophy) An ameliorative change of a concept or a repertoire of concepts.
    pre-amelioration
    post-amelioration

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