The act of improving; advancement or growth; a bettering
Increase; growth; progress; advance.
Something which is improved
Valuable additions or betterments, for example buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises.
A useful addition to, or modification of, a machine, manufacture, or composition.
The state of being improved; betterment; advance
The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; practical application, for example of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.
Renewed interest, performance, cultivation, or flourishing state of something, as of culture, commerce, agriculture.
Reanimation from a state of languor or depression; applied to health, a person's spirits, etc.
Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; a period of religious awakening; special religious interest.
Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.
A Christian religious meeting held to inspire active members of a church body or to gain new converts.
Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; reinstatement of a legal action.
The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
Revivification, as of a metal.