different between reformation vs amendment

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin reformatio, reformationis (“reform, change”), from ref?rm? (“transform, reshape”), from re- + f?rm? (“shape, form”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???f??me??n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???f??me??n?/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

reformation (countable and uncountable, plural reformations)

1. An improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices, etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social, political or religious affairs or in the conduct of persons or operation of organizations.
   • 1590, Sir Philip Sidney, Book 2:

     […] olde men long nusled in corruption, scorning them that would seeke reformation […]

   • ca. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, sc. 2:

     And like bright metal on a sullen ground,

     My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,

     Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes

     Than that which hath no foil to set it off.

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, "Of Innovation"

     It is good also, not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware, that it be the reformation, that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change, that pretendeth the reformation.

   • 1677, John Dryden, The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man, Author's Apology:

     […] satire lashes vice into reformation, and humour represents folly so as to render it ridiculous.

2. (law) Change or correction, by a court in equity, to a written instrument to conform to the original intention of the parties.
   • 1893, Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman, A Treatise on Equity Jurisprudence, Chapter XXIX, §507 (footnotes omitted):

     All sorts of legal instruments may be reformed by equity, when the errors, which have been committed in the execution of them, are mutual mistakes or a mistake of one party combined with the fraud of the other. Thus, reformation has been decreed of all kinds of deeds of conveyance, including leases, mortgages, deeds of trust, marriage and family settlements. Likewise, bonds of all kinds, policies of insurance, assignments or release of mortgages, executory contracts for the sale of lands, the indorsement of a note, agreements for the establishment of a highway, military orders. So may, also, judgments and other records be corrected or be reformed.

Translations

Further reading

• Protestant Reformation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

re- +? formation

Pronunciation

Noun

reformation f (plural reformations)

1. re-formation

See also

• réformation

English

Etymology

From French amendement, from Late Latin amendamentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mend.m?nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??m?nd.m?nt/

Noun

amendment (countable and uncountable, plural amendments)

1. An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.

   Synonyms: improvement, reformation

2. In public bodies, any alteration made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion that adds, changes, substitutes, or omits.
3. (law) Correction of an error in a writ or process.
4. (especially US) An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.

5. That which is added; that which is used to increase or supplement something.

Derived terms

• constitutional amendment

Related terms

Translations

See also

• engrossed
• engrossed amendment
• repeal

Further reading

• amendment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• amendment in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• amendment at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• mandement