meliorator

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English

Etymology

meliorate +‎ -or

Noun

meliorator (plural meliorators)

  1. One who meliorates; an improver.
    • 2007 October 21, Harry Hurt Iii, “A Lens on Wealth, From All the Angles”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      Who can fault Ralph Waldo Emerson for observing that “the greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering trade?”

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) meliōrātor

  1. second-person singular future passive imperative of meliōrō
  2. third-person singular future passive imperative of meliōrō
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