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Inherited, acquired, or induced resistance to infection by a specific pathogen.
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Exemption from certain generally applicable requirements of law or from certain liabilities, granted to special groups of people to facilitate the performance of their public functions.
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Exemption from prosecution granted to a witness to compel him or her to give potentially self-incriminating testimony that otherwise could not be compelled because of the constitutional right against self-incrimination.
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Exemption from being sued.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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Exemption from obligation or responsibility in any respect, conferred by law or a sovereign act; freedom from legal liability; an exemption conferred, as from public service or charges, or from penalty for any particular act or course of conduct; hence, special privilege; liberty to do or refrain from doing any particular thing.
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Exemption from any natural or usual liability.
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In eccles. usage, the exemption of certain sacred places and ecclesiastical personages from secular burdens and functions, and from acts regarded as repugnant to their sanctity.
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See the quotation.
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In pathology, a lack or absence of susceptibility to disease. This may be either natural or acquired.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular privilege
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Freedom; exemption.
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The state of being insusceptible to disease, certain poisons, etc.
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The state of being insusceptible to something; notably:
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A resistance to a specific thing.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
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the quality of being unaffected by something
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an act exempting someone
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the state of not being susceptible
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(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
Word Usage
"The High Court found that the expert had immunity but the Court of Appeal allowed the GMC's appeal, finding that an expert had no immunity from disciplinary proceedings."