immunity

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  1. noun The quality or condition of being immune.
  2. noun Immunology Inherited, acquired, or induced resistance to infection by a specific pathogen.
  3. noun Law Exemption from normal legal duties, penalties, or liabilities, granted to a special group of people: legislative immunity.
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  • I guaranteed him immunity, which is what we often have to do. —  A VOID
  • This immunity was the by-product of other rarities: an observing eye and a long memory. —  Pick Up Sticks-Emma Lathen-John Putnam Thatcher 11
  • "We do not know if the vaccine will confer long-term immunity or would immunity wane after some years," he said in a speech to the Asian Oncology Summit. —  Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
  • Perhaps you can help us understand how a finer-grained approach, at least at the level of cellular versus humoral immunity are the wrong view, and how we apparently aren't using immunomodulation in the right way that you seem to have. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Dr Anne Szarewski from Cancer Research UK says it was likely that boys would be vaccinated to ensure widespread immunity, and remove the stigma associated with the injection, dubbed by some as 'the promiscuity jab' because it vaccinates against a sexually transmitted infection. —  Home | Mail Online
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  1. = French immunité = Provencal immunitat = Spanish inmunidad = Portuguese immunidade = Italian immunità, from Latin immunita(t-)s, inmunita(t-)s, exemption from public service or charges, from immunis, exempt from public service or charges: see immune.
 

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