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What does impunity mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word impunity? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (countable, law) Exemption from punishment.
  2. (uncountable) Freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.
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Because there is no arbitrary third party, or court system with the backing of an enforcement agency, laws may be broken with impunity.
People were murdered with impunity and worse than this, it became a narco-state.
To the eye of ordinary vigilance, the bundle is abandoned waste, which may be kicked or trod on with impunity.
Since the joint capsules and ligaments play a crucial role in the kinematics of the tarsal joints, they cannot be stripped away with impunity.
Another issue is that of learner drivers driving for years on L-plates with seeming impunity.
Those who call for an end to impunity view crimes committed in wars or civil conflicts in the same way as crimes committed by common criminals.

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