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The answer AMNESTY has 131 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of amnesty in various dictionaries:
noun - a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment
noun - a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
noun - the formal act of liberating someone
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| Not a pardon, which lifts punishment, it differs by barring prosecution |
| Those who oppose a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants call it this type of collective pardon |
| Jefferson granted one of these general pardons to those convicted under the Alien & Sedition Acts |
| From the Greek for "not remembered", it's a pardon granted by the government to political offenders |
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| A general pardon granted by a government, especially for political offenses. |
| To grant a general pardon to. |
| An official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offences. |
| Grant an official pardon to. |
| an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offences. |
| grant an official pardon to. |
| a decision by a government that allows political prisoners to go free: |
| a fixed period of time during which people are not punished for committing a particular crime: |
| a decision by a government to forgive people who have committed particular illegal acts or crimes, and not to punish them: |
| the formal act of liberating someone |
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Amnesty (from the Greek amnestia, "forgetfulness, passing over") is defined as: "A pardon extended by the government to a group or class of people, usually for a political offense; the act of a sovereign power officially forgiving certain classes of people who are subject to trial but have not yet been convicted." * It includes more than pardon, inasmuch as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the offense. Amnesty is more and more used to express "freedom" and the time when prisoners can go free. * Amnesties, which in the United Kingdom may be granted by the crown or by an act of Parliament, were formerly usual on coronations and similar occasions, but are chiefly exercised towards associations of political criminals, and are sometimes granted absolutely, though more frequently there are certain specified exceptions. Thus, in the case of the earliest recorded amnesty, that of Thrasybulus at Athens, the thirty tyrants and a few others were expressly excluded from its operation; and the |