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Amends   /əmˈɛndz/   Listen
Amends

noun
1.
A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.  Synonyms: damages, indemnification, indemnity, redress, restitution.
2.
Something done or paid in expiation of a wrong.  Synonym: reparation.



Amend

verb
(past & past part. amended; pres. part. amending)
1.
Make amendments to.
2.
To make better.  Synonyms: ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate.  Antonym: worsen.
3.
Set straight or right.  Synonyms: rectify, remediate, remedy, repair.  "Rectify the inequities in salaries" , "Repair an oversight"



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"Amends" Quotes from Famous Books



... will give up such a false idea, if he will show that he is not cold-blooded and calculating, as his last outbreak seemed to prove, and can become as brave and true a soldier as Strahan, I will make amends by treating him as I do Strahan, and will try to feel as friendly towards him. He shall not have the right to say I'm 'not a woman ...
— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe

... does forgive, Jack,' said Estelle, 'would not Goody be glad that you have it from his own lips? Would she not feel you were better, more the real kind Jack she loves, if you asked for that forgiveness, though Dick does give it so freely? Oh, Jack, here is your chance of making amends; here is your chance of telling ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various

... Indies by armed expeditions, which included the capture of Spanish ships and the sacking of Spanish trading posts. The Spaniards regarded Drake and Hawkins as smugglers and pirates, and in vain asked Elizabeth to disavow and make amends ...
— Famous Sea Fights - From Salamis to Tsu-Shima • John Richard Hale

... I should like to have had a share of the supper," continued Miss Debby. "I heard that you had worried yourself nearly to death preparing it, and that it was really good, considering that you were not used to such things. Young John Pendleton said that it made him some little amends for being forced to go to a place where he made a mistake every time he addressed his entertainers ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various

... quarter of the town. The library in the Bruchion, which was estimated to contain 400,000 volumes, was accidentally, or, as it has been said, purposely burned during the siege of the city by Julius Caesar, but that in the Serapion escaped. To make amends for this great catastrophe, Marc Antony presented to Cleopatra the rival library, brought for that purpose from Pergamus. It consisted of 200,000 volumes. It was with the library in the Bruchion that the Museum was originally connected; but after its conflagration, ...
— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper


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