amnestied
nə noun
1.
a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
2.
Law. an act of forgiveness for past offenses, especially to a class of persons as a whole.
3.
a forgetting or overlooking of any past offense.
verb (used with object)
4.
to grant amnesty to; pardon.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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amnesty (ˈæmnɪstɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n , pl -ties | |
| 1. | a general pardon, esp for offences against a government |
| 2. | a period during which a law is suspended to allow offenders to admit their crime without fear of prosecution |
| 3. | law a pardon granted by the Crown or Executive and effected by statute |
| —vb , -ties, -ties, -tying, -tied | |
| 4. | (tr) to overlook or forget (an offence) |
| [C16: from Latin amnēstia, from Greek: oblivion, from amnēstos forgetting, from | |
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Word Origin & History
amnesty
"pardon of past offenses," 1570s, from Fr. amnestie "intentional overlooking," from L. amnestia, from Gk. amnestia "oblivion," from a-, privative prefix, "not," + mnestis "remembrance," related to mnaomai "I remember" (see mind (n.)). Amnesty International founded 1961 as Appeal
for Amnesty. The name was changed 1963.
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