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Impunity


IMPU'NITY, noun [Latin impunitas; in and punio, to punish.]

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