Amnesty

n. Amnesty International, international human rights organization

n. clemency, pardon

v. pardon, grant clemency

For the human rights organization, see Amnesty International. Amnesty (from the Greek amnestia, oblivion) is an act of justice by which the supreme power in a state restores those who may have been guilty of any offence against it to the position of innocent persons. It includes more than pardon, inasmuch as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the offence.
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Noun
1. a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment
(hypernym) exemption, freedom
2. a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
(synonym) pardon
(hypernym) warrant
(classification) law, jurisprudence
3. the formal act of liberating someone
(synonym) pardon, free pardon
(hypernym) clemency, mercifulness, mercy
(classification) law, jurisprudence
Verb
1. grant a pardon to (a group of people)
(hypernym) pardon
(classification) law, jurisprudence

n. Amnesty

(v.)
Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
  

(v.)
An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.
  

(v. t.)
To grant amnesty to.