Impunity
WordNet
noun
(1) Exemption from punishment or loss
WiktionaryText
Noun
- Being outside of the rule of law; without risk of retribution.
- The corrupt officials enjoyed complete impunity.
- 1846, Edgar Allen Poe, The Cask of Amontillado:
- I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is undressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.
- Exemption from punishment.