What does the word impunity mean?
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Part of speech: noun
Usage examples for impunity
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No one could infringe those rights with impunity: hence you will notice what is said here, " The chief captain was afraid when he knew that he was a Roman because he had bound him." – The Negro and the elective franchise. A Series Of Papers And A Sermon (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 11.) by Archibald H. Grimké, Charles C. Cook, John Hope, John L. Love, Kelly Miller, and Rev. Frank J. Grimké
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Yet there were many things, quite as impossible in real life, that we could do with impunity- most delightful things! – Peter Ibbetson by George Du Maurier
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We frequently do good to enable us with impunity to do evil. – The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)--Continental Europe I by Various