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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Immunity \Im*mun"i*ty\, n. The state of being insusceptible to poison, the contagion of disease, etc From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Immunity \Im*mu"ni*ty\, n.; pl {Immunities}. [L. immunitas fr immunis free from a public service; pref. im- not + munis complaisant, obliging, cf munus service, duty: cf F. immunit['e]. See {Common}, and cf {Mean}, a.] 1. Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege; as the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy. 2. Freedom; exemption; as immunity from error. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: immunity n 1: the state of not being susceptible: "unsusceptibility to rust"; "immunity to disease" [syn: {unsusceptibility}] [ant: {susceptibility}] 2: the quality of being unaffected by something "immunity to criticism" 3: an act exempting someone "he was granted immunity from prosecution" [syn: {exemption}, {granting immunity}]
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