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amnesties

amnesties is the plural of amnesty.

Meaning of amnesty

Noun

amnesty (countable and uncountable, plural amnesties)

  1. Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
  2. An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.
    • Argentina has seen few legal issues as contentiously debated as these two laws of amnesty during the last two decades. […] Pursuant to the Convention on Forced Disappearance, amnesties may not contemplate a statutory limitation period less than that corresponding to the gravest crime punishable by...Fall 2007, Gaspar Forteza, “Regarding Simón y otros: Accountability in Argentina and International Human Rights as Domestic Positive Law”, in FIU Law Review, volume 3, number 1, →ISSN, archived from...

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Questions about amnesties

What is amnesties the plural of?
Amnesties is the plural of amnesty.

Words near amnesties in the dictionary

  1. amnestic mild cognitive impairments
  2. amnestical
  3. amnestically
  4. amnestics
  5. amnestied
  6. amnesties
  7. amnesty
  8. amnestying
  9. amnia
  10. amnicolid
  11. amnicolids

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