[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

amends \amends"\, n. sing.  pl. f. amendes, pl. of amende.
   cf. amende.
   compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.
   now const. with sing. verb. "an honorable amends."
   --addison.
   1913 webster

         yet thus far fortune maketh us amends.   --shak.
   1913 webster
see also:
amende 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

amends
     n 1: a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury syn:
           damages, indemnity, indemnification, restitution,
           redress
     2: something done or paid in expiation of a wrong; "how can i
        make amends" syn: reparation
see also:
damages indemnity indemnification restitution redress reparation 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

72 moby thesaurus words for "amends":
   atonement, balancing, blood money, commutation, compensate,
   compensation, composition, compromise, consideration, correction,
   counteraction, counterbalancing, damages, expiation,
   expiatory offering, fixing, guerdon, honorarium, indemnification,
   indemnity, lex talionis, make amends, make reparation,
   make restitution, making amends, making good, making right,
   making up, meed, mending, offsetting, overhaul, overhauling, pay,
   paying back, peace offering, piaculum, price, propitiation,
   quittance, reclamation, recompense, rectification, redemption,
   redress, refund, reimbursement, remedy, remuneration, repair,
   repairing, reparation, repay, repayment, reprisal, requital,
   requite, requitement, restitution, retaliation, retribution,
   return, revenge, reward, salvage, satisfaction, smart money,
   solatium, squaring, substitution, troubleshooting, wergild

[4] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

amends. a satisfaction, given by a wrong doer to the party injured for a
wrong committed. 1 lilly's reg. 81.
     2. by statute 24 geo. ii. c. 44, in england, and by similar statutes in
some of the united states, justices of the peace, upon being notified of an
intended suit against them, may tender amends fore the wrong alleged or done
by them in their official character, and if found sufficient, the tender
debars the action. see act of penn. 21 march, 1772, sec. 1 and.2; willes'
rep. 671, 2; 6 bin. 83; 5 serg.  r. 517, 299; 3 id. 295; 4 bin. 20.

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