Meaning of amnestii | Babel Free

Definitions

to give amnesty to, to pardon

transitive

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Examples

“Sándor Szathmári, “La falsa aŭguro””

So he was arrested and his writings burned, he was imprisoned, and now even those who so much as mention those abominable theories are imprisoned. And you would give amnesty to that monster?

“M. Ŝidlovskaja (translator), La Filino de la Kapitano (Капитанская дочка / The Captain’s Daughter) by Alexander Pushkin, Chapter 11,”

I made reply that having already received my life at his hands (lit. been given amnesty by him), I trusted not merely in his good nature but in his help. (Mary Pamela Milne-Home translation, The Daughter of the Commandant)

“Bertil Nilsson (translator), Mariamne (Herod and Mariamne) by Pär Lagerkvist,”

Nor could she plead on behalf of all of them, for then Herod would certainly be enraged and show mercy to none. (Naomi Walford translation, Vintage, 1982)

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