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impunity|ɪmˈpjuːnɪtɪ|
[ad. L. impūnitās, f. impūnis (see impune and -ty), or ad. F. impunité (14th c. in Littré).]
Exemption from punishment or penalty.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 716/2 For the safegard of heretikes, and impunitie of all mischieuous people. 1598R. Barckley Felic. Man (1631) 648 Wicked acts and misdemeanours are allured by impunity, as it were by rewards. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 45 This unlimited power of doing anything with impunity, will only beget a confidence in kings of doing what they list. 1736Butler Anal. i. ii. Wks. 1874 I. 41 Delay of punishment is no sort nor degree of presumption of final impunity. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xxv, You can't commit murder in this country with impunity.
b. In weaker sense: Exemption from injury or loss as a consequence of any action; security.
1800Med. Jrnl. III. 50 Men of strong constitutions began to stimulate in excess very early in life, and continued in the practice for several years with impunity. 1806Ibid. XV. 442 Mr. Fewster..had the small-pox in his youth, and was exposed to the infection with impunity for forty years. 1834Pringle Afr. Sk. viii. 285 The venom of the most deadly snakes may be swallowed with impunity. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. xiv. 142 Its runners..seem to bear with impunity the fierce shocks of the ice. |