Exonerate vs Impunity - What's the difference?
exonerate | impunity |
To relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).
(obsolete, reflexive) Of a body of water, to discharge (oneself), empty oneself.
*, II.ii.3:
To free from an obligation, responsibility or task.
To free from accusation or blame.
(countable, legal) Exemption from punishment.
(uncountable) Freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.
* 1846 , :
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 495:
As a verb exonerate
is to relieve (someone or something) of a load; to unburden (a load).As a noun impunity is
exemption from punishment.exonerate
English
Verb
(exonerat)- I would examine the Caspian Sea, and see where and how it exonerates itself, after it hath taken in Volga, Iaxartes, Oxus, and those great rivers; at the mouth of Obi, or where?
Synonyms
* (to free from accusation ) acquit English transitive verbs ----impunity
English
Noun
- I must not only punish but punish with impunity . A wrong is undressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.
- The remoteness of the prison made the authorities feel they could ignore us with impunity .