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Exonerate vs Impunity - What's the difference?

exonerate | impunity |

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)
  • 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:
    • 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?
  • To free from an obligation, responsibility or task.
  • To free from accusation or blame.

    • Synonyms

    * (to free from accusation ) acquit English transitive verbs ----

    impunity

    English

    Noun

  • (countable, legal) Exemption from punishment.
  • (uncountable) Freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.
  • * 1846 , :
    • I must not only punish but punish with impunity . A wrong is undressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 495:
    • The remoteness of the prison made the authorities feel they could ignore us with impunity .