Associations to the word «Amends»

Wiktionary

AMENDS, noun. Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.
AMENDS, verb. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of amend

Dictionary definition

AMENDS, noun. A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.
AMENDS, noun. Something done or paid in expiation of a wrong; "how can I make amends".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope