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An adherent or advocate of the doctrine that the world, or society, may be improved and suffering alleviated through rightly directed human effort.
Adhering to or advocating the doctrine that the world, or society, may be improved and suffering alleviated through rightly directed human effort.
Early 19th century; earliest use found in Monthly Repository. Apparently from amelior- + -ist.