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Impunity vs Redemption - What's the difference?

impunity | redemption |

As nouns the difference between impunity and redemption

is that impunity is (countable|legal) exemption from punishment while redemption is (religious): redemption; salvation.

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 .

    redemption

    English

    (wikipedia redemption)

    Noun

  • the act of redeeming or something redeemed
  • the recovery, for a fee, of a pawned article
  • salvation from sin
  • rescue upon payment of a ransom

    • Derived terms

    * beyond redemption * past redemption * redemption fatigue * redemption price * redemption value