Alteration vs Amend - What's the difference?
alteration | amend |
The act of altering or making different.
* 1594 , , Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity ,
The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition.
* 1892 , ,
To make better.
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* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
To become better.
(obsolete) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.x:
*, II.2.6.ii:
To make a formal alteration in legislation by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
As a noun alteration
is the act of altering or making different.As a verb amend is
to make better.alteration
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Noun
(en noun)- …alteration , though it be from worse to better, hath in it inconveniences…
- …and I saw by the alteration in your face that a train of thought had been started.
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*amend
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Verb
(en verb)- Mar not the thing that cannot be amended .
- We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
- But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend .
- he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended .