amends
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
[1913 Webster]
Yet thus far fortune maketh us amends. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
AMENDS. A satisfaction, given by a wrong doer to the party injured for a
wrong committed. 1 Lilly's Reg. 81.
2. By statute 24 Geo. II. c. 44, in England, and by similar statutes in
some of the United States, justices of the peace, upon being notified of an
intended suit against them, may tender amends fore the wrong alleged or done
by them in their official character, and if found sufficient, the tender
debars the action. See Act of Penn. 21 March, 1772, Sec. 1 and.2; Willes'
Rep. 671, 2; 6 Bin. 83; 5 Serg. & R. 517, 299; 3 Id. 295; 4 Bin. 20.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "amends":
atonement, balancing, blood money, commutation, compensate,
compensation, composition, compromise, consideration, correction,
counteraction, counterbalancing, damages, expiation,
expiatory offering, fixing, guerdon, honorarium, indemnification,
indemnity, lex talionis, make amends, make reparation,
make restitution, making amends, making good, making right,
making up, meed, mending, offsetting, overhaul, overhauling, pay,
paying back, peace offering, piaculum, price, propitiation,
quittance, reclamation, recompense, rectification, redemption,
redress, refund, reimbursement, remedy, remuneration, repair,
repairing, reparation, repay, repayment, reprisal, requital,
requite, requitement, restitution, retaliation, retribution,
return, revenge, reward, salvage, satisfaction, smart money,
solatium, squaring, substitution, troubleshooting, wergild
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