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Amen

ɑˈmɛn
WordNet
Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska is in childbirth. In her amen she keeps her son Henry Benedict Stuart. To the left and right of the bed a few court ladies. On the left is her husband, pretender to the throne James Francis Edward. At the bottom left a three-line text in Dutch with an explanation of the depiction and on the right a comparable explanation in Latin.
Princess Maria Clementina Sobieska is in childbirth. In her amen she keeps her son Henry Benedict Stuart. To the left and right of the bed a few court ladies. On the left is her husband, pretender to the throne James Francis Edward. At the bottom left a three-line text in Dutch with an explanation of the depiction and on the right a comparable explanation in Latin.
  1. (n) Amen
    a primeval Egyptian personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at Thebes
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Amen
    To say Amen to; to sanction fully.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. amen
    Verily; truly: retained in the Bible from the original.
  2. amen
    It is so; after a prayer or wish, be it so: a concluding formula used as a solemn expression of concurrence in a formal statement or confession of faith, or in a prayer or wish.
  3. amen
    A mere concluding formula.
  4. (n) amen
    He who is true and faithful: retained in the Bible from the original, as a title of Christ.
  5. (n) amen
    An expression of concurrence or assent; an assertion of belief.
  6. (n) amen
    The concluding word or act; end; conclusion.
  7. amen
    To ratify solemnly; say amen to; approve.
  8. amen
    To say the last word to; end; finish.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (interj) Amen
    ā′men′ or ä′men′ so let it be!—v.t. to say amen to anything, to ratify solemnly.
  2. (interj) Amen
    ā′men′ or ä′men′, so let it be!—v.t. to say amen to anything, to ratify solemnly.
Quotations
Martin Luther
Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!
Martin Luther
Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Martin Luther
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
Martin Luther
Novalis Hardenberg
Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.
Novalis Hardenberg
Winston Churchill
Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
Winston Churchill
Idioms

Amen - Some use 'Amen' or 'Amen to that' as a way of agreeing with something that has just been said.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. amen, Gr. 'amh`n, Heb. āmēn, certainly, truly

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Gr.—Heb. āmēn, firm, true.

Usage in the news

Amen , Funeral Director. nytimes.com

Amen , a funeral director in Brooklyn, refuses to dress dowdy, even while working wakes at the Jurek-Park Slope Funeral Home, which she has owned since 1989. nytimes.com

Dr Daniel Amen and "Unchain Your Brain". kboo.org

Oh Well, Whatever, Nevermind: Forever and Ever, Amen . soundandvisionmag.com

The Amen Center is a new shelter for the homeless which has opened in the former Delta Elementary School. semissourian.com

Shirley and Danny Hollowell show a finished bedroom in the Amen Center Sunday, Sept 11, 2011, at Delta, Mo. semissourian.com

After the claustrophobic fuzz of 2009's DIA, Amen Dunes has returned with the fantastically-titled Through Donkey Jaw (Sacred Bones). villagevoice.com

Goodbye, Farewell and Amen . toledofreepress.com

Lady Gaga Launches ' Amen Fashion' Tumblr. rollingstone.com

Kamau Amen -Ra's 'Here's Looking at You: A Visual Essay of Jazz and Blues' at the San Leandro Library through July 31. sfbayview.com

Amen Hallelujah Reaching for Oaks Glory. bloodhorse.com

Amen Hallelujah has been prepping for the Kentucky Oaks on the turf at Gulfstream. bloodhorse.com

The leader of a household that authorities described as a religious cult was convicted Tuesday along with two other people of starving a 1-year-old boy to death because he did not say " Amen " during a mealtime prayer. kdbc.com

Amen Hallelujah Answers Santa Ynez Call. bloodhorse.com

Amen Hallelujah pulls away to win the Santa Ynez under Chantal Sutherland. bloodhorse.com

Usage in scientific papers

The techniques described in this paper are amenable to evolutionary approaches, and could benefit from these results.
Multiagent Control of Self-reconfigurable Robots

By an application of the uniqueness theorem of Burton and Keane , we get in the case where G is the usual Zd lattice (and more generally when G is a transitive amenable graph — see Section 2.5 for a definition) that the number of infinite clusters is at most one, FRC-a.s. as well as WRC-a.s.
Explicit isoperimetric constants and phase transitions in the random-cluster model

Two important properties, that may or may not hold for a given quasi-transitive graph, are amenability and unimodularity, which we review next.
Explicit isoperimetric constants and phase transitions in the random-cluster model

The graph Zd is amenable, while Tn is nonamenable for n ≥ 2.
Explicit isoperimetric constants and phase transitions in the random-cluster model

All of (20)–(23) can reduce to equalities; this happens, e.g., whenever G is amenable.
Explicit isoperimetric constants and phase transitions in the random-cluster model

Usage in literature

About sunset Lord Kenmure died, at the same instant that Rutherford said Amen to his prayer. "Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents" by Alexander Whyte

His will be done: Amen, Amen, Amen. "The Life of Nelson, Vol. II. (of 2)" by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The Great Temple was built, as we have said, in honour of Thothmes I and II, and the deities Amen-Ra and Hathor. "History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery" by L.W. King and H.R. Hall

She had known for many days that she would have to punish Jimmy Singleton, for Jimmy had been growing daily less amenable to discipline. "The Trail Horde" by Charles Alden Seltzer

And, moreover, what was, is, and ever shall be, Amen! "Two Knapsacks" by John Campbell

Neither could send nor receive a challenge without rendering himself amenable to a court-martial. "The Point Of Honor A Military Tale" by Joseph Conrad

Elmira, while constantly more amenable to her mother, was at the moment more outspoken against her. "Jerome, A Poor Man" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Cancers of mucous membranes are less amenable to ray treatment because they are less circumscribed and are difficult of access. "Manual of Surgery" by Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles

I will not stand amenable before God for crime like this. "The Harvest of Years" by Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell

Scientific prophecy is amenable to the same tests as other prophecy. "The Breath of Life" by John Burroughs

Usage in poetry
So did the life of pain
In glory close;
LORD GOD, may we attain
Their grand repose! Amen.
"For ever with the Lord!"
Amen, so let it be;
Life from the dead is in that word,
'Tis immortality.
It sheds a shy solemnity,
This lamp in our poor room.
O grey and gold amenity, —
Silence and gentle gloom!
The hawk is for the hill, he cried,
The badger for the glen;
The otter for the river-pools
Amen, amen, amen!
Be all due honours paid,
To him, the world, who made —
To him, who sav'd it, lost,
And to the Holy Ghost! Amen.
Out of thy way remove the lets,
Cleanse this polluted den;
Tender my suits, cancel my debts:
Sweet Jesus, say Amen.