amelioration

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of making better. countable,uncountable
    — 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. countable,uncountable
  3. The process by which a term gains a more positive connotation over time. countable,uncountable
  4. An ameliorative change of a concept or a repertoire of concepts. countable,uncountable
    — pre-amelioration

词形变化

ameliorations plural melioration alternative,archaic

词源

From Middle English amelioracioun, from Middle French amelioracion and probably partly ameliorate + -ion.
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