Impunity vs Penalty - What's the difference?
impunity | penalty |
(countable, legal) Exemption from punishment.
(uncountable) Freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.
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* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 495:
A legal sentence.
A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
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(finance) A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
(football) A direct free kick from the penalty spot, taken after a defensive foul in the penalty box; a penalty kick.
(ice hockey) A punishment for an infraction of the rules, often in the form of being removed from play for a specified amount of time.
As nouns the difference between impunity and penalty
is that impunity is (countable|legal) exemption from punishment while penalty is .impunity
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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 .
penalty
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(wikipedia penalty)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(penalties)- The penalty for his crime was to do hard labor.
- Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?
- A penalty was called when he tripped up his opponent.