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Word Meanings - AMENDMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Correction of an error in a writ or process. Syn. -- Improvement; reformation; emendation. (more info) 1. An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices. 2. In public bodies; Any

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Correction of an error in a writ or process. Syn. -- Improvement; reformation; emendation. (more info) 1. An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices. 2. In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.

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  • PROGRESSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
  • PROGRESS
    to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. 1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
  • DISCIPLINER
    One who disciplines.
  • PROGRESSION
    Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic. (more info) 1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward. 2. Course; passage; lapse
  • INCREASEMENT
    Increase. Bacon.
  • EMENDATION
    1. The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement. "He lies in his sin without repentance or emendation." Jer. Taylor. 2. Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better
  • PROGRESSIST
    One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.
  • CHASTISEMENT
    The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment. Shall I so much dishonor my fair stars, On equal terms to give him chastesement! Shak. I have borne chastisement; I will not offend any more. Job xxxiv. 31.
  • CORRECTIONER
    One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction. Shak.
  • DISCIPLINE
    The enforcement of methods of correction against one guilty of ecclesiastical offenses; reformatory or penal action toward a church member. (more info) 1. The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by
  • PROGRESSIVE PARTY
    The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates
  • PUNISHMENT
    A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention. (more info) 1. The act of punishing. 2. Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person
  • PROGRESSIONIST
    1. One who holds to a belief in the progression of society toward perfection. 2. One who maintains the doctrine of progression in organic forms; -- opposed to uniformitarian. H. Spencer.
  • IMPROVEMENT
    Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises. (more info) 1. The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration;
  • AMENDMENT
    Correction of an error in a writ or process. Syn. -- Improvement; reformation; emendation. (more info) 1. An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices. 2. In public bodies; Any
  • CORRECTION
    1. The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of God's word, and other scandalouss vices. Strype.
  • INCREASE
    To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases. Increasing function , a function whose value increases when that of the variable increases, and decreases when the latter is diminished. Syn. -- To enlarge;
  • INCREASER
    One who, or that, increases.
  • RECTIFICATION
    The determination of a straight line whose length is equal a portion of a curve. Rectification of a globe , its adjustment preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem. (more info) 1. The act or operation of rectifying; as, the rectification
  • ADVANCEMENT
    Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution. 4. Settlement on a wife, or jointure. Bacon. (more info) 1. The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance;
  • REINCREASE
    To increase again.
  • UNPROFICIENCY
    Want of proficiency or improvement. Bp. Hall.
  • SELF-DISCIPLINE
    Correction or government of one's self for the sake of improvement.
  • PREFORMATION
    An old theory of the preëxistence of germs. Cf. Emboîtement.
  • NONPROFICIENCY
    Want of proficiency; failure to make progress.
  • PROFICIENCE; PROFICIENCY
    The quality of state of being proficient; advance in the acquisition of any art, science, or knowledge; progression in knowledge; improvement; adeptness; as, to acquire proficiency in music.

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