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Advancement vs Melioration - What's the difference?

advancement | melioration |

As nouns the difference between advancement and melioration

is that advancement is the act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning while melioration is (archaic) an improvement, betterment or amelioration.

advancement

English

Alternative forms

* advancemente * advauncement * advauncemente

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.
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  • An advance of money or value; payment in advance.
  • (legal) Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.
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    melioration

    English

    Noun

  • (archaic) An improvement, betterment or amelioration
  • *{{quote-book, year=1860, author=True Worthy Hoit, title=The Right of American Slavery, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=It would seem that the rise and progress of this Republic; the spread of our ocean commerce; the building of a thousand cities; the rush of the world to our shores; the peopling of our boundless plains; the rapid birth of new States into our Union; the triumph of our arms; our repeated accessions of territory; our maritime and commercial superiority; our foreign discoveries; our inventions in mechanism; our discoveries in science; the use of steam, and electricity; our statesmanship, and foreign diplomacy; a thousand miraculous incidents of individual enterprise and success; the discovery of gold, of silver, and iron; our internal improvements and meliorations ; our national prestige ; and finally, our greatness and glory as a nation,--ought to suffice for any reasonable conception of the marvellous, as they outstrip the more ignoble creations of fancy, and absolutely invade the former domain of fiction and romance. }}
  • (linguistics) The process in which a term gains a more positive connotation over time