Crossword-Solution: AMNESTY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Amnesty | v. | Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion. |
| 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. |
| Amnesty | v. t. | To grant amnesty to. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with AMNESTY (5)
Also, arguing that most black prisoners had been convicted in courts by people conspicuous for their racial prejudice, they advocated that all black inmates of American jails should immediately be released and granted amnesty.
Now Congress had not appropriated a cent, and no sooner did the proclamations of general amnesty appear than the 800,000 acres of abandoned lands in the hands of the Freedmen's Bureau melted quickly away.
Your Majesty’s loyal subject, the widow of Peter Nikolaevich Sventizky, murdered by the peasants, throws herself at the sacred feet (this sentence, when he wrote it down, pleased the constable himself most of all) of your Imperial Majesty, and implores you to grant an amnesty to the peasants so and so, from such a province, district, and village, who have been sentenced to death.” The telegram was sent by the constable himself, and Natalia Ivanovna felt relieved and happy.
The jarl said: "You must know that although I agree to this compromise, I do not consider it a full amnesty.
Arbitrarily excepted from the amnesty in 1859, Proudhon was pardoned two years later by a special act.
Quotes with AMNESTY (3)
AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
Peter Brown, that great historian of early Christianity, has given the most cogent explanation for the arising of the cult of the saints in the late Roman world. He explains that the emphasis of early Christian preaching on judgment, on the human need for redemption from sin, brought to the minds of common people — among whom Christianity was early successful — their social and political condition. Having strictly limited powers to remedy any injustice they might suffer, or t…
Justified within ourselves that we have suffered more than others, we feel guiltless when we disregard those in front of us, be they our family, our co-workers, strangers we interact with during our daily business, or faceless masses in foreign lands. There are those who transcend the bitter acts done unto them, declaring that the pain shall end with them. And then there are those who use the crimes committed against them as a free pass to commit crimes against others. Wronge…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 50 times in crossword archives (1972–2025).