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meliorate verb adorn, advance, ameliorate, amend, assuage, beautify, better, correct, cultivate, cure, doctor, elevate, embellish, emend, enhance, enrich, forward, have a good influence, improve, invigorate, lard, make better, make improvements, mend, mitigate, modernize, palliate, polish, purify, raise, reclaim, rectify, reface, refine, reform, refurbish, regenerate, rehabilitate, reinvigorate, relieve, render better, renew, renovate, reorganize, repair, restore, revive, touch up, transfigure, transform, upgrade, uplift See also: alter, ameliorate, commute, cure, develop, embellish, emend, fix, mitigate, modify, mollify, progress, rectify, reform, rehabilitate, relieve, remedy, renew, renovate, repair, restore How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Madison's conviction that no nation could preserve its liberty in the midst of continual warfare lay behind his view that a central purpose of America was to seek "by appeals to reason and by its liberal examples to infuse into the law which governs the civilized world a spirit which may diminish the frequency or circumscribe the calamities of war, and meliorate the social and beneficent relations of peace. While we can, indeed must, meliorate the conditions of suffering of the sick and dying, we cannot appropriate God's right as author of life to determine when it will end. It is hard to see how any American strategy, no matter how clever the conception or assiduous the implementation could do more than meliorate the fundamental problem. |
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