Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
amnesty - adjective That has been given
amnesty ; whose past offences have been forgiven.
Etymologies
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Examples
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If reform passed this year, 2024 is earliest possible election that "amnestied" immigrants could vote. sankara:
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If reform passed this year, 2024 is earliest possible election that "amnestied" immigrants could vote.
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If reform passed this year, 2024 is earliest possible election that "amnestied" immigrants could vote. ohknow:
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The 12 million amnestied aliens would, once they achieved legal recognition, dominate the culture of the other 288 million inhabitants of our section of the continent.
Immigration 2010
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The system will keep on functioning and nobody will be amnestied for their crimes even if one or two officials would be killed.
Global Voices in English » Serbia: Gay Pride Parade Postponed 2009
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The government suggested that Islamists imprisoned under ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali would be amnestied.
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With the stroke of a pen, this law amnestied over twice the number of illegal immigrants originally noted, many fraudulently, and was followed by several smaller amnesties since then.
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Likewise, labor rights advocate Su Su Nway has been amnestied before.
Burma's Prisoner Shell Game David Scott Mathieson 2011
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While the coup plotters of 1981 were arrested tried, and thrown in jail, the people who were amnestied four years earlier were not.
Confederate War Crimes Trial: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? 2010
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Garzon is a champion of universal jurisdiction, the concept that crimes against humanity cannot be amnestied or subject to statutes of limitations.
peggytharpe commented on the word amnestied
popular use, changing noun "amnesty" to a verb
April 5, 2009