See disimprovement on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1687, John Norris, “The Christian Law Asserted and Vindicated, or A General Apology for the Christian Religion, both as to the Obligativeness and Reasonableness of the Institution”, in A Collection of Miscellanies: Consisting of Poems, Essays, Discourses, and Letters Occasionally Written, Oxford: Printed […] for J. Crosley, bookseller, →OCLC; 3rd corrected edition, London: Printed for S[amuel] Manship, and are to be sold by Percivall Gilbourne, […], 1699, →OCLC, page 193:",
"text": "[...] '[T]is very reaſonable, that all ſhould be obliged to the Law of Justice. [...] And as to the Public, 'twould be all one as if there were no Property; and then for want of Encouragement and Security, the final iſſue of the matter would be, an utter neglect and diſimprovement of the Earth, and a continual diſturbance of the Public Peace.",
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"text": "From day to day the intelligent student can watch the course of the affection before him, notice the finest shades of improvement or disimprovement, test the results of treatment, and verify for himself the truth of both diagnosis and prognosis.",
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"text": "There is an appeal to methods like simulated annealing and threshold acceptance that make no recourse to memory, but that operate simply by imposing a monotonically declining ceiling on objective function levels or degrees of disimprovement (treated probabilistically or deterministically).",
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