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To: WriterInTX

can someone please define “amnesty?”


9 posted on 06/04/2007 2:39:24 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Thank you St. Jude.)
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am·nes·ty /ˈæmnəsti/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[am-nuh-stee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation noun, plural -ties, verb, -tied, -ty·ing. –noun
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. –verb (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!)
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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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