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Amendment vs Postscript - What's the difference?

amendment | postscript |

As nouns the difference between amendment and postscript

is that amendment is an alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices while postscript is (countable) an addendum to a letter, added after the author’s signature.

As a verb postscript is

to extend (a letter or another document) with additional remarks.

amendment

English

(wikipedia amendment)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
  • In public bodies; Any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.
  • * 2014 , Ian Black, " Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:
    • Arrests and prosecutions intensified after Isis captured Mosul in June, but the groundwork had been laid by an earlier amendment to Jordan’s anti-terrorism law. It is estimated that 2,000 Jordanians have fought and 250 of them have died in Syria – making them the third largest Arab contingent in Isis after Saudi Arabians and Tunisians.
  • (legal) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
  • An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.
    • The First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.
    The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery.
  • That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.
    • a soil amendment

    Synonyms

    * improvement * reformation

    Related terms

    * amend * amendable * amendatory

    See also

    * engrossed * * repeal

    External links

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    Anagrams

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    postscript

    English

    Alternative forms

    * post script * postscriptum (post scriptum) * PS (, etc.)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) An addendum to a letter, added after the author’s signature.
  • (countable) An addition to a story, play, etc.

    • Usage notes

    To indicate the beginning of a postscript to a letter, one often uses the abbreviation PS'' (or '' , etc) followed by a colon or comma.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To extend (a letter or another document) with additional remarks.