All 9 Uses

amnesty
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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Then the editor gave Tomas a sheet of paper with a short text calling upon the president of the republic, in a relatively respectful manner, to grant amnesty to all political prisoners.†
Chpt 5

amnesty = a pardon; or the time period during which the pardon is offered
Amnesty to political prisoners?†
Chpt 5
Would amnesty be granted because people jettisoned by the regime (and therefore themselves potential political prisoners) request it of the president?†
Chpt 5
The only thing such a petition would accomplish was to keep political prisoners from being amnestied if there happened to be a plan afoot to do so!†
Chpt 5 *
Either you called for an amnesty or you separated the wheat from the chaff.†
Chpt 5

amnesty = a pardon; or the time period during which the pardon is offered
or You mean you don't want to sign the amnesty petition?†
Chpt 5
The editor had barely finished saying what he thought about people who agree that the political prisoners should be granted amnesty but come up with thousands of reasons against signing the petition.†
Chpt 5
his son added, and Tomas suddenly saw that what was really at stake in this scene they were playing was not the amnesty of political prisoners; it was his relationship with his son.†
Chpt 5
I can't help thinking about the editor in Prague who organized the petition for the amnesty of political prisoners.†
Chpt 6

Definitions:

(1) (amnesty)
official forgiveness or a pardon; or the time period during which the pardon is offered
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)