亚洲网紅露点

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amende honorable

[ uh-mend on-er-uh-buhl; French a-mahn daw-naw-ra-bluh ]

noun

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


amende honorable

/ am蓱虄d 蓴n蓴rabl蓹 /

noun

  1. a public apology and reparation made to satisfy the honour of the person wronged Sometimes shortened toamende
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of amende honorable1

From French, dating back to 1660鈥70; amends, honorable
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of amende honorable1

C18: literally: honourable compensation
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The carping had subsided, he wrote, but few of the carpers had as yet made the 鈥渁mende honorable鈥 that now clearly was due Chicago.

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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.

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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.

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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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