impunity

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  1. noun Exemption from punishment, penalty, or harm.

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  • Your family, Monsieur de Beaulieu, is very well in its way; but if you sprung from Charlemagne, you should not refuse the hand of a Malétroit with impunity--not if she had been as common as the Paris road--not if she was as hideous as the gargoyle over my door. —  The Short-story
  • A certain portion seemed to have no wish to do so; although Simon Bates might have walked the streets of Kingston with impunity, there was a risk that he might be recognised by some traitor and denounced. —  Roger Willoughby A Story of the Times of Benbow
  • Grown bold by impunity, the faggers resolved to divide the boys of the classes below them among themselves as fags by lots. —  Ernest Bracebridge School Days
  • He indeed feared that the priests would not allow them to escape with impunity, and he guessed truly that it had been only for the sake of inflicting a greater cruelty that Nigel had first been carried off Monsieur Laporte with the good doctor happily came in, having heard a rumour of what had occurred. —  Exiled for the Faith A Tale of the Huguenot Persecution
  • The Baltimore American, of March 17, 1845, relates a similar case of atrocity, perpetrated with similar impunity--as follows:--"_Shooting a slave._--We learn, upon the authority of a letter from Charles county, Maryland, received by a gentleman of this city, that a young man, named Matthews, a nephew of General Matthews, and whose father, it is believed, holds an office at Washington, killed one of the slaves upon his father's farm by shooting him. —  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
 

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  1. Latin impūnitās, from impūne, without punishment : in-, not; see in-1 + poena, penalty (from Greek poinē; see kwei-1 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from French impunité = Spanish impunidad = Portuguese impunidade = Italian impunità, from Latin impunita(t-)s, inpunita(t-)s, omission of punishment, from impunis, inpunis, without punishment: see impune.
 

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