Amnesty

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To grant amnesty to.

II. Amnesty ·v Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.

III. Amnesty ·v 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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