meliorism

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Etymology

From Latin melior (“better”) +‎ -ism. Reportedly coined by British author George Eliot in her letters, published in 1877.

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Noun

meliorism (countable and uncountable, plural meliorisms)

  1. The view or doctrine that the world can be improved through human effort (often understood as an intermediate outlook between optimism and pessimism).
    • 1966 May 6, “Forever Beginning”, in Time:
      At the convention, the official mood was traditional Methodist meliorism.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 371:
      Enclaves of meritocratic and virtuous sociability, the lodges exuded […] a thoroughgoing meliorism.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French méliorisme.

Noun

meliorism n (uncountable)

  1. meliorism

Declension

declension of meliorism (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) meliorism meliorismul
genitive/dative (unui) meliorism meliorismului
vocative meliorismule
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