To: WriterInTX
can someone please define “amnesty?”
To: the invisib1e hand
am÷nes÷ty /ˈæmnəsti/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[am-nuh-stee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, plural -ties, verb, -tied, -ty÷ing. ÃÂnoun
1. a general pardon for offenses, esp. political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
2. Law. an act of forgiveness for past offenses, esp. to a class of persons as a whole.
3. a forgetting or overlooking of any past offense. ÃÂverb (used with object)
4. to grant amnesty to; pardon.
12 posted on
06/04/2007 3:58:14 AM PDT by
Edgar3
(Steve Spurrier for President!)
To: the invisib1e hand
can someone please define amnesty? You kick my door down and move in and take all my stuff.
I then tell you it's all right.
19 posted on
06/04/2007 5:07:22 AM PDT by
Gorzaloon
(Global Warming: A New Kind Of Scientology for the Rest Of Us.)
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