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mel·io·ra·tion    Audio Help   [meel-yuh-rey-shuhn, mee-lee-uh-] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.Historical Linguistics. semantic change in a word to a more approved or more respectable meaning. Compare pejoration (def. 2).
2.amelioration.

[Origin: 1620–30; < LL meliōrātiōn- (s. of meliōrātiō), equiv. to meliōrāt(us) (see meliorate) + -iōn- -ion]
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mel·io·ra·tion    Audio Help   (mēl'yə-rā'shən, mē'lē-ə-)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
    1. The act or process of improving something or the state of being improved.
    2. An improvement.
  1. The linguistic process by which a word over a period of time grows more elevated in meaning or more positive in connotation.

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melioration

noun
1. the act of relieving ills and changing for the better [syn: amelioration
2. a condition superior to an earlier condition; "the new school represents a great improvement" [syn: improvement] [ant: declination
3. the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning 

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Melioration

Mel`io*ra"tion\, n. [L. melioratio.] The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement. --Bacon.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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