Read full poem →Well, if our author in the wife offends,
He has a husband that will make amends;
He draws him gentle, tender, and forgiving;
Dictionary Entry
To repair a relationship; to resolve an argument or fight; to make reparations or redress.
In a Sentence
“I hope they can stop fighting and make amends.”
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Poetry examples for “make amends”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Let defiance to them pay mistrust of Thee,
And Rome make amends for Calvary!
Read full poem →dained that if they at all sinned through the freedom, they
afterward through the freedom should make amends for it
by repentance; and that if any of them were so hard-hearted
Read full poem →might fancy for a moment that some power in nature produced this
beautiful change, with a view to make amends for those Alpine sullyings
which the waters exhibit near their fountain heads; but, alas! how soon