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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
amends
n 1: a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury [syn:
{damages}, {indemnity}, {indemnification}, {restitution},
{redress}]
2: compensation (given or received) for an injury or insult;
"an act for which there is no reparation"; "how can I make
amends?" [syn: {reparation}]
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