amnesty
/ˈæm.nɪ.sti/noun
High School
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.
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