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Webster 1913 Edition
Impunity
Im-pu′ni-ty
,Noun.
[L.
impunitas
, fr. impunis
without punishment; pref. im-
not + poena
punishment: cf. F. impunité
. See Pain
.] Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss.
Heaven, though slow to wrath,
Is never with
Is never with
impunity
defied. Cowper.
The
impunity
and also the recompense. Holland.
Webster 1828 Edition
Impunity
IMPU'NITY
,Noun.
1.
Exemption from punishment or penalty. No person should be permitted to violate the laws with impunity. Impunity encourages men in crimes.2.
Freedom or exemption from injury. Some ferocious animals are not be encountered with impunity.Definition 2024
impunity
impunity
English
Noun
impunity (countable and uncountable, plural impunities)
- (countable, law) Exemption from punishment.
- (uncountable) Freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.
- 1846, Edgar Allen Poe, The Cask of Amontillado:
- I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.
- 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 495:
- The remoteness of the prison made the authorities feel they could ignore us with impunity.
- 1846, Edgar Allen Poe, The Cask of Amontillado:
Translations
exemption from punishment
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freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.