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Webster 1913 Edition
Amends
A-mends′
,Noun.
sing.
& pl.
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.
Compensation for an injury; recompense; satisfaction; equivalent; as, the happiness of a future life will more than make amends for the miseries of this.