impunity

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪmˈpjuːnɪti/

Noun

impunity

1. (countable, legal) Exemption from punishment.
2. (uncountable) Freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.
   • 1846, Edgar Allen Poe, The Cask of Amontillado:

     I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 495:

     The remoteness of the prison made the authorities feel they could ignore us with impunity.

Translations

• French: impunité
• German: Straflosigkeit
• Portuguese: impunidade
• Russian: освобожде́ние от наказание
• Spanish: impunidad

Translations

• French: impunité
• German: Straflosigkeit
• Portuguese: impunidade, imunidade
• Russian: безнака́занность

Related terms

• impunitive
• punishment
• punition
• punitive
• punitively

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