[f. AMEND + -ING1.] The action of freeing from faults, correcting, reforming, repairing, making good; amendment. (Now mostly gerundial.)
c. 1315. Shoreham, Ps. xxiii. 4. Thy discipline and thyn amendyng conforted me.
1340. Ayenb., 180. After the ssrifte comþ ynoȝbote, þet is þe amendinge.
1435. in Heath, Grocers’ Comp. (1869), 417. Amendyng of banneres, and hire of barges … iiijlb. vjs. iiid.
1570. Ascham, Scholem. (Arb.), 28. Heedefull amending of faultes.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, v. 85. For amending of a dry constitution … it is … of singular efficacy.
1622. Callis, Stat. Sewers (1824), 110. The repairing and amending of bridges.
1656. Artif. Beauty (1662), 214. Concealings or amendings of what is … amiss.
Mod. Prove your repentance by amending your life.
