Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Exemption from punishment, penalty, or harm.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Exemption from punishment or penalty.
- n. Freedom or exemption from injury, suffering, or discomfort.
Wiktionary
- n. countable, law Exemption from punishment.
- n. uncountable Freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss.
WordNet 3.0
- n. exemption from punishment or loss
Etymologies
- From Latin impunitas, from impunis without punishment. (Wiktionary)
- Latin impūnitās, from impūne, without punishment : in-, not; see in-1 + poena, penalty (from Greek poinē; see kwei-1 in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And the term "impunity" has been removed in every instance.”
“The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has been very vocal about the massacre and critical of what it calls impunity in the killings of journalists in the Philippines.”
Voice of America: Defense Attorneys Acknowledge Journalists Died in 2009 Philippines Massacre
“The attack prompted journalists to protest against what they call the impunity that allows such attacks to take place.”
“The idea that the federal government would allow them to be murdered with impunity is unacceptable.”
“Anybody that wants to cross our borders and live here anonymously with impunity is welcome.”
“This week's poster child for the cop culture of impunity is Constable Mike Wasylyshen of the Edmonton Police Force, er, Service.”
“This criticism that Romney seems to dish out with impunity is bording on TREASON .....”
“Maybe you should be less of a hack and admit that a system where politicians lie with impunity is unworkable and undemocratic.”
Matthew Yglesias » Are Televised Negotiations Even Possible?
“On 6 May 2002, the US government took the unprecedented step of repudiating its signature of the Rome Statute and began a worldwide campaign to weaken the Court and to obtain impunity for all US nationals from the jurisdiction of the Court.”
“And the fight against impunity is one of these implications.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘impunity’.
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1100
abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
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GRE 2014
abate, abdicate, abase, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
cadre, bribery, bashing, backhander, clash, crony, coercion, coterie, chicanery, baksheesh, acolyte, backlash and 256 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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POL - scandalous (words and collocati...
Words and collocations associated with political scandal
blow the whistle, boo, cronyism and rigging, democratic deficit, denigrate, dirty linen, fiasco, finger pointing a..., graft, hidden account, hush money, illicit financing... and 578 more...
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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(1st_wk_150)-Dec_5_2012
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron, paradox, realm and 297 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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January 2012
bloviate, pastiche, apparat, facile, paroxysm, pique, bedfellow, pedigree, tutelage, protege, protégé, retroactive and 196 more...
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GRE
predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 567 more...
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Lesson 6
addict, aspire, bias, blatant, candid, confront, debut, enroll, fluster, impunity, intensify, intimidate and 3 more...
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SAT words
tergiversate, cymotrichous, vigilance, wince, consternation, cower, neutralize, euphony, cacophony, misanthrope, bibliophile, kleptomania and 81 more...
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GRE 1100
drudgery, implore, hapless, nuance, wrest, incipient, inadvertent, tremulous, bristle, euphemism, disdain, pugnacious and 346 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Vocab_TC60Q_txtbook
most vocab in the textbook Page till end chapter 2.
forfeited, nullifying, avowed, libelous, sapped, fascistic, outclassed, revolting, ecumenical, looming, fretful, penitent and 86 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for impunity.
hernesheir imp + unity. Feb 12, 2010
cr2thfairy None shall injure me with impunity.
The motto for Scotland, noted with the thistle, the national symbol. Jun 9, 2009
sonofgroucho Nemo me impune lacessit. Apr 18, 2007