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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -meliorat-, *meliorat*
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WordNet (3.0)
melioration(n) the linguistic process in which over a period of time a word grows more positive in connotation or more elevated in meaning

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Meliorate

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Meliorated p. pr. & vb. n. Meliorating. ] [ L. melioratus, p. p. of meliorare to meliorate, fr. melior better; akin to Gr. ma^llon rather, ma`la very. Cf. Ameliorate. ] To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nature by art we nobly meliorate. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind. Washington. [ 1913 Webster ]

Meliorate

v. i. To grow better. [ 1913 Webster ]

Meliorater

n. Same as Meliorator. [ 1913 Webster ]

Melioration

n. [ L. melioratio. ] The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Meliorator

n. One who meliorates. [ 1913 Webster ]

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