Amnesty vs. Pardon
Amnestynoun
Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
Amnestynoun
An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.
Amnestyverb
To grant a pardon (to a group)
Amnestynoun
Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
Amnestynoun
An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.
Amnestyverb
To grant amnesty to.
Amnestynoun
a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment
Amnestynoun
a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
Amnestynoun
the formal act of liberating someone
Amnestyverb
grant a pardon to (a group of people)
Amnesty
Amnesty (from the Greek ἀμνηστία amnestia, ) is defined as An amnesty constitutes more than a pardon, in so much as it obliterates all legal remembrance of the offense. Amnesty is increasingly used to express the idea of and to refer to when prisoners can go free.
Pardonnoun
Forgiveness for an offence.
Pardonnoun
(legal) An order that releases a convicted criminal without further punishment, prevents future punishment, or (in some jurisdictions) removes an offence from a person's criminal record, as if it had never been committed.
Pardonverb
(transitive) To forgive.
Pardonverb
(transitive) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
Pardonverb
To grant an official pardon for a crime; unguilt.
Pardoninterjection
Often used when someone does not understand what another person says.
Pardonnoun
The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
Pardonnoun
An official warrant of remission of penalty.
Pardonnoun
The state of being forgiven.
Pardonnoun
A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amnesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.
Pardonverb
To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; - applied to the offender.
Pardonverb
To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; - applied to offenses.
Pardonverb
To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
Pardonverb
To give leave (of departure) to.
Pardonnoun
the act of excusing a mistake or offense
Pardonnoun
a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
Pardonnoun
the formal act of liberating someone
Pardonverb
accept an excuse for;
Pardonverb
grant a pardon to;
Pardonnoun
the action of forgiving or being forgiven for an error or offence
Pardonnoun
a cancellation of the legal consequences of an offence or conviction
Pardonnoun
an indulgence, as widely sold in medieval Europe.
Pardonverb
forgive or excuse (a person, error, or offence)
Pardonverb
release (an offender) from the legal consequences of an offence or conviction, and often implicitly from blame
Pardonverb
used to indicate that someone is justified in doing or thinking a particular thing given the circumstances
Pardoninterjection
a request to a speaker to repeat something because one did not hear or understand it
Pardon
A pardon is a government decision to allow a person to be relieved of some or all of the legal consequences resulting from a criminal conviction. A pardon may be granted before or after conviction for the crime, depending on the laws of the jurisdiction.Pardons can be granted in many countries when individuals are deemed to have demonstrated that they have , or are otherwise considered to be deserving of them.
