amnesty

Borrowed from Middle French amnestie (Modern French amnistie), a borrowing from Latin amnestia, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀμνηστία (amnēstía).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæm.nɪ.sti/

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amnesty (countable and uncountable, plural amnesties)

1. Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
2. An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.

• amnestic
• Amnesty International

• amnesia

amnesty (third-person singular simple present amnesties, present participle amnestying, simple past and past participle amnestied)

1. (transitive) To grant a pardon (to a group)

• “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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