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amelioration

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See also:amélioration

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishamelioracioun, fromMiddle Frenchamelioracion and probably partlyameliorate +‎-ion.[1]

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Noun

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Examples (linguistics)
  • Middle Englishnyce(“foolish”) → Englishnice(“kind”)

amelioration (countable anduncountable,pluralameliorations)

  1. The act of makingbetter.
    Antonym:deterioration
    • 1834,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXII, inFrancesca Carrara. […], volume III, London:Richard Bentley, […], (successor toHenry Colburn),→OCLC,page262:
      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 ofamelioration be true, what a mighty debt does the future owe to the past!
  2. Animprovement.
    Synonym:revamp
  4. (linguistics) The process by which aterm gains a morepositiveconnotation over time.
    Antonym:pejoration
  5. (philosophy) Anameliorativechange of aconcept or arepertoire of concepts.
    pre-amelioration
    post-amelioration

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Translations

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act of making better
improvement
process in which a term gains a more positive connotation over time

References

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  1. ^“amelioration,n.”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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