amelioration vs perfecting

amelioration

noun
  • The act of making better. 

  • An improvement. 

  • The process by which a term gains a more positive connotation over time. 

  • An ameliorative change of a concept or a repertoire of concepts. 

perfecting

noun
  • The process of printing on both sides of the printed-on material during its single pass through the printing press. 

How often have the words amelioration and perfecting occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )