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Usage in 1826 by Thomas Malthus

In the 6th edition of his An Essay on the Principle of Population : A View of its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness; with an Inquiry into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which It Occasions, published in 1826, Thomas Malthus uses the form melioration in the following way "Man is necessarily confined in room. When acre has been added to acre till all the fertile land is occupied, the yearly increase of food must depend upon the melioration of the land already in possession." (book 1, pp 17).