Crossword-Solution: MELIORISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Meliorism | n. | The doctrine that there is a tendency throughout nature toward improvement. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “MELIORISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| notion that the world can be improved by human effort | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
LECREOT
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with MELIORISM (5)
The idea of a universal evolution lends itself to a doctrine of general meliorism and progress which fits the religious needs of the healthy‐minded so well that it seems almost as if it might have been created for their use.
Midway between the two there stands what may be called the doctrine of meliorism, tho it has hitherto figured less as a doctrine than as an attitude in human affairs.
The ironical pessimism of Thomas Hardy is as false as the sentimental optimism of Walter Besant or the miso-androus meliorism of Sarah Grand.
For, after all, we must never shut our eyes to the actual; and in the world as it is, meliorism, not optimism, is the true opposite of pessimism.
How can we exclude from the cognition of a truth a faith which is involved in the creation of the truth? _M_ has its character indeterminate, susceptible of forming part of a thorough-going pessimism on the one hand, or of a meliorism, a moral (as distinguished from a sensual) optimism on the other.