AMNESTY (amnestied)

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Irregular inflected form: amnestied   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does amnesty mean? 

• AMNESTY (noun)
  The noun AMNESTY has 3 senses:

1. a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment

2. a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense

3. the formal act of liberating someone

  Familiarity information: AMNESTY used as a noun is uncommon.

• AMNESTY (verb)
  The verb AMNESTY has 1 sense:

1. grant a pardon to (a group of people)

  Familiarity information: AMNESTY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMNESTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A period during which offenders are exempt from punishment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("amnesty" is a kind of...):

exemption; freedom (immunity from an obligation or duty)

Derivation:

amnesty (grant a pardon to (a group of people))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A warrant granting release from punishment for an offense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

amnesty; pardon

Hypernyms ("amnesty" is a kind of...):

warrant (a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

amnesty (grant a pardon to (a group of people))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The formal act of liberating someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

amnesty; free pardon; pardon

Hypernyms ("amnesty" is a kind of...):

clemency; mercifulness; mercy (leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

amnesty (grant a pardon to (a group of people))

• AMNESTY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grant a pardon to (a group of people)

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "amnesty" is one way to...):

pardon (grant a pardon to)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

amnesty (the formal act of liberating someone)

amnesty (a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense)

amnesty (a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment)

 Context examples 

We must have an amnesty in that direction, I think.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)