improvement

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

The part of a discourse intended to enforce and apply the doctrines, is called the improvement.--Webster.


The conclusion is termed, somewhat inaccurately, making an improvement of the whole. The author, we presume, means, deducing from the whole what may contribute to the general improvement.--British Critic. Vol. I. p. 379.

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