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Safe conduct

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Noun
  1. 1
    The security given by authority of a government to a stranger for his quietly coming into and passing out of the territories over which said government has jurisdiction or control. uncountable

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Attested as early as the 14th century in Robert of Gloucerster's chronicles written in Middle English; ultimately a calque of Old French sauf-conduit.

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