amnestii

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Etymology

amnestio +‎ -i.

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Verb

amnestii (present amnestias, past amnestiis, future amnestios, conditional amnestius, volitive amnestiu)

  1. (transitive) to give amnesty to, to pardon
    • Sándor Szathmári, “La falsa aŭguro”
      Oni do lin arestis, liajn skribojn forbruligis, lin mem malliberigis, kaj nuntempe oni jam malliberigas eĉ tiujn, kiuj nur mencias tiujn tezojn abomenindajn. Kaj ĉu vi volus amnestii tiun monstron?
      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,
      Mi respondis, ke post kiam mi unu fojon jam estis de li amnestiita, mi ankaŭ nun esperas ne nur lian indulgon, sed eĉ lian helpon.
      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,
      Ŝi ja ankaŭ ne povas iri al li pentante gracon por ĉiuj tiuj, tiukaze li certe tre kolerus kaj tute neniun amnestius.
      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)