amende honorable

American  

[uh-mend on-er-uh-buhl, a-mahn daw-naw-ra-bl^uh] / əˈmɛnd ˈɒn ər ə bəl, a mɑ̃ dɔ nɔˈra blə /

noun

plural

amendes honorables

1. a formal apology to a person whose honor has been offended.

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amende honorable British  

/ amɑ̃d ɔnɔrablə /

noun

1. Sometimes shortened to: amende.  a public apology and reparation made to satisfy the honour of the person wronged

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Etymology

Origin of amende honorable

From French, dating back to 1660–70; amends, honorable

Example Sentences

The carping had subsided, he wrote, but few of the carpers had as yet made the “amende honorable” that now clearly was due Chicago.

From Literature

His sentence was "to make the amende honorable, naked to his shirt, a rope round his neck, holding in his hand a lighted wax-candle weighing two pounds, before the principal door of the cathedral, whither he will be conducted by the executioner, and there, on his knees, with uncovered head," confess his fault and ask pardon of God and the king.

From Project Gutenberg

Howbeit, my fair readers will learn with satisfaction that the doctrines of this aforesaid Almaricus were condemned by the church as heretical, and his bones were therefore dug up, and cast into a common sewer, as an amende honorable to the offended ladies.

From Project Gutenberg

Princess, 448.Amende honorable, Punishment, what, 433.Amerongen,

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Do, worthy Mr. Editor, make the amende honorable by publishing the true characters of the MSS. forwarded by S. H. H., which you have so inadvertently published as original.

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