amnesty

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AM'NESTY, noun [Gr. of a neg and memory, from the root of mens, mind. See Mind.] An act of oblivion; a general pardon of the offenses of subjects against the government, or the proclamation of such pardon.
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