amendment

Noun

Meaning

An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.

Correction of an error in a writ or process.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

improvement reformation change addendum reform revision modification correction supplement adjustment alteration emendation amending moa appendix
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Antonyms

boner bloomer faux pas bungle erratum boo-boo
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Hypernyms

correction rectification statement

Phrases with the word

Ninth Amendment First Amendment Fifth Amendment Second Amendment Fourteenth Amendment Nineteenth Amendment

Anagrams

mandement

Examples

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. Anthony Kennedy

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. William O. Douglas

The Fourth Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. Potter Stewart

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment. William O. Douglas

First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought. Anthony Kennedy

Amendment is repentance. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

amended version amender amendful amendment application amendment enchantments Amendola