Amende Honorable

Amende Honorable was originally a mode of punishment in France which required the offender, stripped to his shirt, and led into court with a rope round his neck held by the public executioner, to beg pardon on his knees of his God, his king, and his country. This term is now used to denote a satisfactory apology or reparation.

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