Usage examples (21)

• No question but the novelist would have welcomed as a convincing proof of her 'meliorist' doctrine the progress made in her own homeland in the century since her birth.
• Not sure that locating the failure in the moral arena makes me a meliorist or not.
• The best known meliorist was Élie Metchnikoff who argues that man can overcome “premature” aging by
• Walter Lipmann, a columnist who wrote in the middle years of the last century, called himself a meliorist.