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单词 amende honorable
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amende honorable


amende honorable

(amɑ̃d ɔnɔrablə) n, pl amendes honorables (amɑ̃dz ɔnɔrablə) a public apology and reparation made to satisfy the honour of the person wronged. Sometimes shortened to: amende [C18: literally: honourable compensation]

Amende honorable


AMENDE HONORABLE, English law. A penalty imposed upon a person by way ofdisgrace or infamy, as a punishment for any offence, or for the purpose ofmaking reparation for any injury done to another, as the walking into churchin a white sheet, with a rope about the neck, and a torch in the hand, andbegging the pardon of God, or the king, or any private individual, for somedelinquency.
2. A punishment somewhat similar to this, and which bore the samename, was common in France; it was abolished by the law of the 25th ofSeptember, 1791. Merlin Rep. de Jur. h.'t.
3. For the form of a sentence of amende horrorable, see D'Agaesseau,Oeuvres, 43 Plaidoyer, tom. 4, p. 246.

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