Immunity definition

Immunity

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noun

(1) An act exempting someone

"He was granted immunity from prosecution"

(2) The quality of being unaffected by something

"Immunity to criticism"

(3) The state of not being susceptible

"Unsusceptibility to rust"

(4) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

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Etymology

From immunitas, in the legal sense; the medical use was borrowed from German or French

Noun

The state of being insusceptible to something; notably:
1. Fully protective resistance against infection
2. (in law) An exemption from specified duties, such as payments or services
  
  Feudal privileges often included tax and other immunities.
3. (in law) An exemption from prosecution
  
  The prosecutor offered the lieutenant immunity for all the crimes he would testify having known to be planned by the elusive drug baron.
A resistance to a specific thing.

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