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As verbs the difference between amen and amend

is that amen is to say Amen while amend is to make better.

As an adverb amen

is at the end of religious prayers: so be it.

As an interjection amen

is an expression of strong agreement.

As a noun amen

is an instance of saying ‘amen’.

As a proper noun Amen

is an English surname.

amen

English

Adverb

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  • At the end of religious prayers: so be it.
  • * 1997 , Contemporary American religion: an ethnographic reader :
  • Frequently "Amen" or Baha'u'l-Abha could be heard during devotions
  • * 1662 , Book of Common Prayer :
  • Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen .
  • * KJV, Nehemiah 5:13:
  • Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen , and praised the Lord. And the people did according to this promise. — Nehemiah 5:13, KJV
  • * KJV, Psalm 72:18-19:
  • Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen', and ' Amen .
  • At the end of a creed or in Koranic and Biblical translations: truly, verily.
  • * 2006 , The Islamic Traditions of Cirebon: Ibadat and Adat Among Javanese Muslims, page 103
  • Throughout the praying the audience responds repeatedly with Amen .
  • * Rhemish Translation, John 3:5:
  • Amen', ' amen , I say to thee, except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God.
    At the end of surah Fatiha, you should say amen .

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • An expression of strong agreement.
  • * 1999 May, Matt Groening, “Hell Is Other Robots”, Futurama , season 1, episode 9
  • Fry:'' Bender's stupid religion is driving me nuts! / ''Leela: Amen !

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of saying ‘amen’.
  • * 2006 , Evault Boswell, The Iron Mountain Baby
  • A chorus of amens rang out across the audience.
  • A title of Christ; the Faithful One (especially with reference to Revelation 3:14)
  • * 1611 , — Revelation 3:14, KJV
  • And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen , the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To say Amen.
  • The whole congregation amened in unison.

    Anagrams

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    amend

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make better.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.}}
  • * Shakespeare
  • Mar not the thing that cannot be amended .
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
  • To become better.
  • (obsolete) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.x:
  • 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 .
  • *, II.2.6.ii:
  • he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended .
  • To make a formal alteration in legislation by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
  • Synonyms

    * ameliorate * correct * improve * See also * See also

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