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Definition of Amends
Amends Amends A*mends", n. sing. & pl. [F. amendes, pl. of amende.
Cf. Amende.]
Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.
[Now const. with sing. verb.] ``An honorable amends.'
--Addison.
Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends. --Shak.
Amend Amend A*mend", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amended; p. pr. & vb. n.
Amending.] [F. amender, L. emendare; e (ex) + mendum,
menda, fault, akin to Skr. minda personal defect. Cf.
Emend, Mend.]
To change or modify in any way for the better; as,
(a) by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt,
superfluous, faulty, and the like;
(b) by supplying deficiencies;
(c) by substituting something else in the place of what is
removed; to rectify.
Amend Amend A*mend" ([.a]*m[e^]nd"), v. i.
To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or
morals; to improve. ``My fortune . . . amends.' --Sir P.
Sidney.
