Lexicographical Neighbors of Melioristic
Literary usage of Melioristic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Some Problems of Philosophy: A Beginning of an Introduction to Philosophy by William James (1911)
"... in the way of belief as well as of our other activities, to bring it to a
prosperous issue. The melioristic universe is conceived after a ..."
2. Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1917)
"In accordance with this theory, the present writer has attempted to work out a
relational, or, as it has been called, melioristic, theory of value. ..."
3. Fundamental Problems: The Method of Philosophy as a Systematic Arrangement by Paul Carus (1903)
"These melioristic features in Christian ethics, which beam forth in Faith and
Hope and ... It was again the Christian faith, the melioristic feature of ..."
4. Conflict in Nature and Life: A Study of Antagonism in the Constitution of by John Stahl Patterson (1883)
"This is the melioristic view. This, too, would properly include all cases in
which certain evils gather force with time; they should be met at every step, ..."
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