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impunity

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Main Entry: impunity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: freedom

Synonyms:

dispensation, exception, exemption, immunity, liberty, license, nonliability, permission, privilege, security
Notes: impunity is protection from punishment, just as immunity is protection from disease

Antonyms:

imprisonment, incarceration
Main Entry: exemption
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: freedom from a responsibility

Synonyms:

absolution, discharge, dispensation, exception, exoneration, immunity, impunity, privilege, release

Antonyms:

accountability, answerability, liability, responsibility
Main Entry: forgiveness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pardon; end of blame

Synonyms:

absolution, acquittal, amnesty, charity, clemency, compassion, condonation, dispensation, exculpation, exoneration, extenuation, grace, immunity, impunity, indemnity, justification, lenience, lenity, mercy, overlooking, palliation, purgation, quarter, quittance, remission, remittal, reprieve, respite, vindication

Antonyms:

accusation, blame, censure, charge, punishment, sentence
Main Entry: freedom
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: political independence

Synonyms:

abolition, abolitionism, autarchy, autonomy, citizenship, deliverance, delivery, democracy, discharge, disengagement, disimprisonment, emancipation, enfranchisement, exemption, extriction, franchise, home rule, immunity, impunity, liberation, liberty, manumission, parole, prerogative, privilege, probation, redemption, release, relief, representative government, rescue, salvage, salvation, self-determination, self-government, sovereignty

Antonyms:

communism, government, subjection, subordination, suppression
Main Entry: immunity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: privilege, exemption

Synonyms:

amnesty, charter, exoneration, franchise, freedom, impunity, indemnity, invulnerability, liberty, license, prerogative, protection, release, resistance, right
Notes: impunity is protection from punishment, just as immunity is protection from disease

Antonyms:

defenselessness, responsibility, susceptibility, vulnerability
Related Words
Main Entry: exemption
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
devoid of, exempt from, not having, unacquired, unblest with, unobtained, unpossessed, unpossessed of, untenanted, without, without an owner
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Forgiveness.
Category: 2. Retrospective sympathetic affections

Synonyms:

-nouns
forgiveness, pardon, condonation, grace, remission, absolution, amnesty, oblivion; indulgence; reprieve., conciliation; reconcilement; reconciliation (pacification); propitiation., excuse, exoneration, quittance, release, indemnity; bill of indemnity, act of indemnity, covenant of indemnity, deed of indemnity; exculpation (acquittal)., longanimity, placability; amantium irae; locus paenitentiae; forbearance.
-verbs
forgive, forgive and forget; pardon, condone, think no more of, let bygones be bygones, shake hands; forget an injury., excuse, pass over, overlook; wink at (neglect); bear with; allow for, make allowances for; let one down easily, not be too hard upon, pocket the affront., let off, remit, absolve, give absolution, reprieve; acquit., beg pardon, ask pardon, implore pardon; conciliate, propitiate, placate; make up a quarrel (pacify); let the wound heal.
-adjectives
forgiving, placable, conclliatory,., forgiven; unresented, unavenged, unrevenged.
-adverbs
cry you mercy.
-phrases
veniam petimusque damusque vicissim [Horace]; more in sorrow than in anger; comprendre tout c'est tout pardonner; "the offender never pardons" [Herbert].
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [more]. Exemption.
Category: 1. Moral obligations

Synonyms:

-nouns
exemption, freedom, irresponsibility, immunity, liberty, license, release, exoneration, excuse, dispensation, absolution, franchise, renunciation, discharge; exculpation.
-verbs
be exempt, exempt, release, acquit, discharge, quitclaim, remise, remit; free, set at liberty, let off, pass over, spare, excuse, dispense with, give dispensation, license; stretch a point; absolve (forgive); exonerate (exculpate); save the necessity.
-adjectives
exempt, free, immune, at liberty, scot-free; released; unbound, unencumbered; irresponsible, unaccountable, not answerable; excusable.
-phrases
bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis [Syrus].
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