Asylum vs Amnesty - What's the difference?
asylum | amnesty |
A place of safety.
The protection, physical and legal, afforded by such a place.
A place of protection or restraint for one or more classes of the disadvantaged, especially the mentally ill.
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, title= Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.
An act of the sovereign power granting oblivion, or a general pardon, for a past offense, as to subjects concerned in an insurrection.
To grant a pardon (to a group)
As nouns the difference between asylum and amnesty
is that asylum is a place of safety while amnesty is forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.As a verb amnesty is
to grant a pardon (to a group.As a proper noun Amnesty is
Amnesty International, a UK-based charity.asylum
English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum , it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner.