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safe-conduct
Word definitions for safe-conduct in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Safe-conduct \Safe"-con"duct\, n. [Safe + conduct: cf. F. sauf-conduit.] That which gives a safe passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A document that grants safe passage through enemy territory in times of war. 2 A convoy or guard to protect a person in a foreign country.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a document or escort providing safe passage through a region especially in time of war [syn: safeguard ]
Usage examples of safe-conduct.
Kurt von Schuschnigg, quickly regained control, and the rebels, though promised safe-conduct to Germany through the intervention of the German minister, were arrested and thirteen of them later hanged.
They hoped for a safe-conduct, a revision of judgment, but he was none the less under sentence of death, executory in twenty-four hours.
The Thier strode on, and gave them safe-conduct to the prison where Farina was confined, being near one of the outer forts of the city.
Weyland could hear Scarpia gallantly agreeing to write the safe-conduct that Tosca demanded for herself and her lover before she would actually yield her body.
He accordingly quitted Florence, accompanied by four other messengers, and an his arrival at Pietra Santa, sent to ask from Charles VIII a safe-conduct for himself alone.
He is in our hands, together with a Serviceman named Yonge, who told me that Councilman Starr had assured him safe-conduct in case of need.
He came with a safe-conduct which the Dowager Electress of Saxony obtained for him from the Holy Father.
Chapter Twenty-two By means of heroic effort, a safe-conduct through Vellanti lines, and a little horse-stealing, Birioc made excellent time back to Cunaxa.
As I had asked, there were five copies of his oath of safe-conduct, in Arkan and Enchian.
Your Grace, by the friendship you bear for me and our mutual service undertaken on behalf of Her Majesty, Queen Ysandre de la Courcel, I beg of you the boon of rendering payment of a ransom of thirty thousand gold ducats to Kazan Atrabiades: half to be paid unto the bearer of this letter, one Captain Nikanor, and half to be paid to Kazan Atrabiades after he has guaranteed my safe-conduct to a place of exchange, to be divulged by Captain Nikanor.
One to Egli, asking him to arrange safe-conducts across the Neuburg bridge for the English Ladies.
Mostly it consisted of standing guard at the city gates, checking permits and safe-conducts, questioning travelers who had neither, reminding incoming merchants of the rules covering their trade.
The quittances which the Mayor of Meudon had exacted from him before he would issue the necessary safe-conducts placed the whole of his future, perhaps his very life, in jeopardy.
All's been done in good haste, the safe-conducts issued for the Welsh princess and her train, all to empty London and turn men's eyes away from what else he intended, at least until it was done.
May had seen Gilbert, the new earl marshal, granted safe-conducts for himself and his brothers, for de Burgh and Basset and Siward and all the other confederates, to come to the council at Gloucester under the archbishop's protection and seek the king's grace.