amnesty : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: amnesty	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for amnesty
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
amnesty n a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense Synonym(s): pardon, amnesty the formal act of liberating someone Synonym(s): amnesty, pardon, free pardon v grant a pardon to (a group of people)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Amnesty \Am"nesty\, v. t. [imp. p. p. {Amnestied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Amnestying}.] To grant amnesty* to.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Amnesty \Am"nes*ty\, n. [L. amnestia, Gr. [?], a forgetting, fr. [?] forgotten, forgetful; 'a priv. + [?] to remember: cf. F. amnistie, earlier amnestie. See {Mean}, v.] 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.