单词 | make amends |
释义 | > as lemmasto make amends P1. to make amends: to make reparation; to make or serve as compensation, to compensate. In later use frequently with for. Cf. sense 1a. to make (a person) amends: to make reparation to a person, compensate a person (now somewhat archaic). [After Anglo-Norman and Middle French faire amende (a1175 in Old French; also faire amendes).] ΚΠ c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) 1813 Out of þy prisoun let hem go & for hymen amendes make. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 291 I rede þou mak amendes of þat grete misdede. c1415 (c1390) G. Chaucer Melibeus (Corpus Oxf.) (1872) §2936 We han offended and y-greued my lord Mellibe out of reson and mesure so ferforþ þat we be nouȝt of power to maken him amendes [c1405 Hengwrt maken his amendes]. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. Prol. 98 Wald thou..mak amendis, I sal remyt this falt; Bot, other wais, that sete sal be full salt. 1611 Bible (King James) Lev. v. 16 Hee shall make amends for the harme that he hath done. View more context for this quotation 1654 A. Palmer Scripture-rale to Lords Table 142 They beleeve there's some good, and they do some good in coming, and this makes amends for much prophanesse. 1699 T. Brown Let. 25 July in Wks. (1707) I. ii. 99 I hope to make you Amends the next Post. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Box The Excellency of its Wood makes amends for its unagreeable Smell. 1836 J. Baillie Romiero iv. ii, in Dramas I. 80 Let me then restore my robbery; And here to make amends (Putting money into the basket.) 1879 A. T. de Vere Legends Saxon Saints Pref. p. xi The Saxon kings made amends for the wrongs inflicted by their ancestors upon the British Celts. 1906 F. M. Hueffer Fifth Queen iii. iii. 260 He should make me amends in public for the foul words that knave uttered. 1955 O. Manning Doves of Venus ii. vi. 138 The dry remoteness of his voice silenced Ellie for so long that he started to speak, as though to make amends. 2010 New Yorker 6 Sept. 43/3 In order to make amends for his wrongdoing, he had become a Messianic Jew. to make (a person) amends to make (a person) amends: to make reparation to a person, compensate a person (now somewhat archaic).extracted from amendsn.< as lemmas |
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