IMPUNITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impunity mean? 

• IMPUNITY (noun)
  The noun IMPUNITY has 1 sense:

1. exemption from punishment or loss

  Familiarity information: IMPUNITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPUNITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exemption from punishment or loss

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("impunity" is a kind of...):

exemption; freedom (immunity from an obligation or duty)

 Context examples 

“But surely,” said she, “I may enter his county with impunity, and rob it of a few petrified spars without his perceiving me.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I would not brawl in the presence of death, but I can assure you that if I were a younger man your monstrous conduct would not pass with impunity.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A lynx's lair is not despoiled with impunity.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He’s not got blood enough to go in for felony with impunity.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No doubt the object of our journey was to catch him in the very act, and I could not but admire the cunning with which my friend had inserted a wrong clue in the evening paper, so as to give the fellow the idea that he could continue his scheme with impunity.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So perfect was the organisation of the society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the perpetrators.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)