aprimoration

Borrowed from Portuguese aprimorar + English -ation, probably a mistranslation by Portuguese speakers. The earliest known use of the English word was is in a 2003 Brazilian dissertation (see the quotation), although it has likely been re-formed independently on multiple occasions.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: əprĭm′ərā′shn, IPA^(key): /əˌpɹɪməˈɹeɪʃ(ə)n/
• Hyphenation: apri‧mor‧a‧tion

aprimoration (countable and uncountable, plural aprimorations)

1. (non-native speakers' English) The rise (of something) to a better state; elevation, improvement, refinement.

   Synonym: sublimation

   • 2003 April, Fabrício Belli Custodio, Treinamento corporativo aplicado à comunicação móvel [Corporate training applied to mobile communication]‎^[1] (MBA in Business Management and Strategy dissertation), Curitiba, State of Paraná, Brazil: Universidade Federal do Paraná, published 18 April 2024, archived from the original on 6 May 2025, page 6:

     The company must see the benefits brought for^{[sic – meaning by]} the compromised employees^{[sic – meaning employees committed]} to the productive world, [such] as the aprimoration of the products and services, the reduction of wastefulness for^{[sic – meaning through]} the improvement of the work techniques, the magnifying^{[sic – meaning magnification]} or transformation of work programs, the economy of costs for^{[sic – meaning by]} the elimination of errors in the execution of the work and the best conditions of adaptation to the progress of the technology.

   • 2003 December 18, Hendges, A. N. G., “Requisitos Essenciais para a Caracterização da União Estável [Essential Requirements for the Characterization of a Civil Union]”, in Revista de Ciências Jurídicas e Sociais da UNIPAR [UNIPAR's Journal of Legal and Social Sciences]‎^[2], volume 6, number 2, Umuarama, State of Paraná, Brazil: Universidade Paranaense, archived from the original on 4 May 2025, page 6:

     The stable union like the marriage, it belongs the main center of cultivation of relationships that aim at moral aprimoration, to the man. It is important the analysis of the rights of the convivens for the moral attendance in reason of its relevance, the true requirement of the stable union that, like accur in the marriage, to bias the execution of the other duties for the companions.

     [sic, meaning "Civil union, as well as marriage, is the main center for cultivating relationships that aim at human moral aprimoration. It's important to analyze cohabitants' right to moral attendance because of its relevance: it's the very requirement for a civil union that, like it occurs in a marriage, favors partners to comply with other duties."]

   • 2017 June 16, Ribeiro, N. F., “Boxing Culture and Serious Leisure among North-American youth: An Embodied Ethnography.”, in The Qualitative Report‎^[3], volume 22, number 6, Fort Lauderdale-Davie, State of Florida, United States: Nova Southeastern University, archived from the original on 4 May 2025, page 1623:

     The conceptual framework I used for the study is that of serious and casual leisure. Given the ethos of boxing, that^{[sic – meaning which]} revolves around relentless acquisition of new skills and aprimoration of the body, built on relentless discipline and almost exclusive devotion to the sport, the acquisition of new skills in order to participate/engage in higher levels of the sport is paramount.

• The term is almost exclusively used by Portuguese speakers.