n. The act of freeing from faults; the act of making better, or of changing for the better; correction; improvement; reformation: as, “amendment of life,”n. The act of becoming better, or the state of having become better; specifically, recovery of health.n. In deliberative assemblies, an alteration proposed to be made in the draft of a bill, or in the terms of a motion under discussion.n. An alteration of a legislative or deliberative act or in a constitution; a change made in a law, either by way of correction or addition.n. In law, the correction of an error in a writ, record, or other judicial document.n. Compensation; reparation. Chaucer, Reeve's Tale.