[f. AMEND + -ING2.] Correcting, reforming, improving.
1641. Milton, Ch. Govt., vii. (1851), 133. The unsetl’d estate of a Church, while it lies under the amending hand.
1775. Burke, Powers of Juries, Wks. X. 128. Blessed be the amending hand.
1873. Stratmann, O. E. Dict., Advt. There will be found few lines, in which the amending hand is not visible.
