improvement
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- emprovement (obsolete)
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improvement (plural improvements)
- The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.
- "I look upon your city as the best place of improvement." -Robert South.
- "Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties." -Hugh Blair.
- The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; a turning to good account; practical application, as of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
- "A good improvement of his reason." - Samuel Clarke.
- "I shall make some improvement of this doctrine." -John Tillotson.
- The state of being improved; betterment; advance; also, that which is improved; as, the new edition is an improvement on the old.
- "The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet." -Joseph Addison.
- Increase; growth; progress; advance.
- "There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays." -Joseph Addison.
- "Those vices which more particularly receive improvement by prosperity." -Robert South.
- (plural): Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
- (Patent Laws): A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
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