amendern.
/əˈmɛndə/, U.S. /əˈmɛndər/ A person who or (occasionally) thing which amends something.
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the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > one who or that which
corrector1377
mendera1382
physiciana1398
amenderc1405
redresserc1449
corrigiour1474
repairer?1504
redressc1530
remeder1535
righter1566
rectifier1607
redressor1643
corrective1768
renovator1827
readjuster1850
Mr Fixit1924
fixer-upper1932
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1170 Pouerte is..A greet amendere eek of Sapience.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. (1557) 402/2 Theyr amenders and punyshers, God hath maynteyned and fauoured.
1616 F. Rous Medit. of Instr. lii. 199 A rough amender, who taking a Church by the blemishes thereof, may perchance pull out them and the sound flesh which hangeth to them.
1672 H. Hickman Bonasus Vapulans 130 Perhaps our last Amenders of the Liturgy did put audible, instead of loud, in some places.
1737 Daily Jrnl. 11 Feb. 1/1 The Case is at present widely different with his Amenders; and he that would attempt to reform Shakespeare..may act without Complaisance.
1739 G. Lyttelton Considerations 20 That it [sc. his motion] will not be mended..and then objected to, and thrown out by the Amenders.
1817 Edinb. Monthly Mag. July 361/1 Some patriotic son of Batavia..has generously offered himself as the amender of a work, which..he could not possibly understand.
1890 Graphic 9 Aug. 143/2 The champion amender on the Opposition Benches has been Sir George Campbell.
1966 Musical Times 107 877/1 Tobin does not..identify the hand of the amender.
2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 29 Aug. h14 Soybeans..lespedeza and vetch are all high-quality legumes that serve as excellent soil amenders.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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