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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
amen .
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Examples
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Neither man said anything more, nor mouthed, nor kneeled, nor amened, nor did save as men among men do and say: but somehow Wayland had never felt so sure of the God, who was Love and whose Love washed men clean, being, as he told himself, 'on the job.'
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"Amen," sez the pepper-and-salt man, I see he had zeal and religion, but I felt kinder flustrated to be "amened" to in public, and I looked kinder meachin 'I spoze, and the calm woman see I did.
Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881
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As Jerry Falwell said (and #55, Pat Robertson amened) shortly after 9/11: "[T] he pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and lesbians ... the ACLU, People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen' ... [
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"And that the 7th section of the said Act be amened as follows:
Journal of the Senate of South Carolina: Being the Session of 1862. South Carolina. General Assembly. Senate 1863
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