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Webster 1913 Edition


Amends

A-mends′

,
Noun.
s
ing.
&
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
.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Amends

AMENDS'

,
Noun.
plu.
Compensation for an injury; recompense; satisfaction; equivalent; as, the happiness of a future life will more than make amends for the miseries of this.