Am'nes-ty, n.

n. [Lat. amnestia, Gr. ἀμνηστία, a forgetting, from ἀμνηστος, forgotten, forgetful, from α priv. and μιμνήσκειν, root μνη, to remember; Fr. amnistie.] An act of oblivion; a general pardon of the offenses committed in time of war, or the proclamation of such pardon.