impunity🔊

(law) Exemption from punishment.

Freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behavior etc.

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Maternus, a private soldier, of a daring boldness above his station, […] plundered with impunity the rich and defenceless cities of Gaul and Spain.

Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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