To this class of words the French have given the designation of contre-verite; and, to my surprise, I find that they include therein the expression amende honorable.
I have some doubts as to whether this meaning of amende honorable be in accordance with our English notion of its import; and I shall be thankful to any of your readers who will help me to a solution.
It is possible that, at first, the amende honorable may have been designed as a "peine infamante;" but its modern acceptation would seem to admit of a more liberal construction.
Sire of Nointel, if upon your knees you make the amende honorable to Mazurec, I shall then put a sword in your hand," said Jocelyn the Champion slowly drawing near.
They are going to witness the 'amende honorable' of poor Mazurec," answered Alison.
She now came to the porch of the Conciergerie, between the court and the first door, and there she was made to sit down, so as to be put into the right condition for making the 'amende honorable'.
In due time Douglas Jerrold, as in duty bound, made the amende honorable to the sex he had maligned.
They made public reparation by the amende honorable, were flogged, mutilated, branded and tortured.
An auditor of the Palace was condemned to make the amende honorable in effigy; a figure of his body in wax being shown at the door of the chapel and then dragged to the pillory to be publicly exposed.
Bertrade, made the amende honorable before the assembled bishops in Paris (1104).
Veron and Sophie made the amende honorable in the Rue Taitbout.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "amende honorable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
