meliority

English

Etymology

From Latin melioritas, from melior. See meliorate.

Noun

meliority (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The state or quality of being better; melioration.
   • 1597, Francis [Bacon], “Of the Colours of Good and Evill, a Fragment”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland […], published 1632, →OCLC:

     [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.

References

• “meliority”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.