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Webster 1913 Edition
Amendment
A-mend′ment
,Noun.
[F.
amendement
, LL. amendamentum
.] 1.
An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
2.
In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.
3.
(Law)
Correction of an error in a writ or process.
Syn. – Improvement; reformation; emendation.
Webster 1828 Edition
Amendment
AMEND'MENT
, n.1.
An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or faults; reformation of life, by quitting vices. 2.
A word, clause or paragraph, added or proposed to be added to a bill before a legislature.3.
In law, the correction of an error in a writ or process.Shakespeare uses it for the recovery of health, but this sense is unusual.
Definition 2024
amendment
amendment
English
Noun
amendment (plural amendments)
- An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
- In public bodies; Any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.
- 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:
- Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law. It is estimated that 2,000 Jordanians have fought and 250 of them have died in Syria – making them the third largest Arab contingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians.
- 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:
- (law) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
- An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.
- The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
- The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery.
- That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.
- a soil amendment
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correction or addition to a law
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that which is added
addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution