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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Melioration \Mel`io*ra"tion\, n. [L. melioratio.]
The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being
meliorated; improvement. --Bacon.
資料來源 : WordNet®
melioration
n 1: the act of relieving ills and changing for the better [syn:
{amelioration}, {betterment}]
2: a condition superior to an earlier condition; "the new
school represents a great improvement" [syn: {improvement}]
[ant: {decline}]
3: the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word
grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in
meaning