meliorative
English
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin meliōrō (“make better, improve”) + English -ative (“tending to”, suffix forming adjectives).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editmeliorative (not comparable)
- (rare) That meliorates; curative, improving, salutary.
- 1808, G. Edwards, Pract. Plan, chapter iii, page 30:
- We…become savage in our hatred to the various meliorative processes.
- 1841, R. Oastler, Fleet Papers, volume I, chapter xl, page 314:
- Peel has no meliorative and restorative principle to propose.
Translations
editthat meliorates
Further reading
edit- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “† Me·liorative, a.”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VI, Part 2 (M–N), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 317, column 2.
German
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Adjective
editmeliorative
- inflection of meliorativ:
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