amnesty

amnesty
n
1. pardon, pardoning, excuse, excusal, excusing, forgiveness, forgiving, absolution, absolving, remission, remitting, reprieve, reprieving; clemency, indulgence, indulgency, indulging, lenience, leniency, lenity; tolerance, forbearance, mercifulness, mercy, grace.
2. immunity, impunity, indemnity, exemption, exempting, exception, Archaic. franchise.
3. overlooking, disregarding, dispensation; oblivion, forgetting, ignoring.
v
4. pardon, excuse, forgive, absolve, remit, reprieve; overlook, make allowances for, pass over, wink at, disregard; forget, ignore, look the other way, pay no attention to; dismiss, let off, Inf. let off the hook, Inf. let out of, Law. discharge; release, free, set free, liberate, emancipate, deliver

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Synonyms:
(granted to whole classes of persons), (by proclamation), ,


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