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See also: Amnesty
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French amnestie (Modern French amnistie), a borrowing from Latin amnestia, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀμνηστία (amnēstía).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
amnesty (countable and uncountable, plural amnesties)
- Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
- An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.
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Translations[edit]
forgetfulness
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act of the sovereign power
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Verb[edit]
amnesty (third-person singular simple present amnesties, present participle amnestying, simple past and past participle amnestied)
- To grant a pardon (to a group)
Translations[edit]
to grant a pardon (to a group)
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Further reading[edit]
- “amnesty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “amnesty”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “amnesty”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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