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Another word for amnesty

Noun

  1. The act or an instance of forgiving

    2. See also:

    forgiveness

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Another word for amnesty

Noun
    2. See also:

    pardon

    acquittal

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Sentence Examples

  • The amnesty of the 4th Brumaire of the year IV.

  • Charles granted the city a full amnesty, and confirmed its liberties and privileges.

  • Upon the restoration of the Bourbon government (May 15, 1849) he was excluded from the amnesty and compelled to flee to Piedmont.

  • At last, worn out by age, he accepted an amnesty and returned to the city of Mexico, where he died in obscurity on the 10th of June 1876.

  • This he put to account when the amnesty of 1866 enabled him to return to Germany.

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