amelioration
See also: amélioration
English
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editEtymology
editFrom Middle English amelioracioun, from Middle French amelioracion and probably partly ameliorate + -ion.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /əˌmiːliəˈɹeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
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amelioration (countable and uncountable, plural ameliorations)
- The act of making better.
- Antonym: deterioration
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 262:
- 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!
- An improvement.
- Synonym: revamp
- (linguistics) The process by which a term gains a more positive connotation over time.
- Antonym: pejoration
- (philosophy) An ameliorative change of a concept or a repertoire of concepts.
- pre-amelioration
- post-amelioration
Descendants
edit- → Malay: ameliorasi
Translations
editact of making better
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improvement
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process in which a term gains a more positive connotation over time
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References
edit- ^ “amelioration, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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