Meanings
nounmeliority (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableThe state or quality of being better; melioration.
[M]en are accuſtomed after themſelues & their ovvne faſhion, to incline vnto them vvhich are ſofteſt, and are leaſt in their vvay, in deſpight and derogation of them, that hold them hardeſt to it. So that this colour of meliority and preheminence is of a ſigne of eneruation and weakneſſe.
1597, Francis [Bacon], “Of the Colours of Good and Evill, a Fragment”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland […], published 1632, →OCLC
Origin
- Latinmelioritas
- Englishmeliority
From Latin melioritas, from melior. See meliorate.
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