amende honorable

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

NOUN

public apology

Synonyms

WEAK

atonement full apology making amends public recantation

Example Sentences

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So heinous a crime could not be overlooked, and Tanee, was banished to his native island; but after a short time he declared his penitence, made amende honorable, and was restored to favour.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

Come down, sole ally and accomplice of my heinous vanity, and plead for me, and make the amende honorable to this grim guardian of Miss Muriel’s peace!”

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans

I even offered to contribute myself, that it might be taken as an amende honorable on behalf of the English Government.

From The Soul of a People by Fielding, H. (Harold)

Dee was convinced and offered the amende honorable, confessing herself beaten in argument.

From At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Speed, Nell

He was conducted by a Garde Bourgeoise to his palace at Versailles, and thus concluded an "amende honorable," as no sovereign ever made, and no people ever received.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Lodge, Henry Cabot