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/əmˈɛndmənt/ Listen

noun

Amendment n.

An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.

(Law) Correction of an error in a writ or process.

Synonyms: Improvement; reformation; emendation.

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Etymology of 'Amendment'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Amendment" Quotes from Famous Books

... action of the faculty was caused by no immorality on his part, but by a systematic neglect of his duties, which no counsel on the part of his professors, or my own, could correct. In compliance, however, with your wishes, and on the positive promise of amendment on the part of your son, he has been received into college, and I sincerely hope that he will apply himself diligently to his studies, and make an earnest effort to retrieve the time he ...

— Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee • Captain Robert E. Lee, His Son

... Plural Voters Bill read a third time. Hostile amendment moved from Front Opposition Bench negatived by 320 votes against 242. Bill ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 24, 1914 • Various

... these Mysteries was instituted by the ancients for the instruction and amendment ...

— The Symbolism of Freemasonry • Albert G. Mackey

... Washington. On the contrary it put forth many efforts to check tendencies so dangerous to finance, commerce, industries, and the Confederation itself. In 1781, even before the treaty of peace was signed, the Congress, having found out how futile were its taxing powers, carried a resolution of amendment to the Articles of Confederation, authorizing the levy of a moderate duty on imports. Yet this mild measure was rejected by the states. Two years later the Congress prepared another amendment sanctioning the levy of duties on imports, to be collected this time by ...

— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard

... This was an amendment, to be sure; but what barbarity, after all! What! not thirty days' run from home, and lose our magnificent homeward-bounders! The homeward-bounders we had been cultivating so long! Lose them at one ...

— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville

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