Immunities

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Immunity \Im*mu"ni*ty\, n.; pl. {Immunities}. [L. immunitas, fr.
     immunis free from a public service; pref. im- not + munis
     complaisant, obliging, cf. munus service, duty: cf. F.
     immunit['e]. See {Common}, and cf. {Mean}, a.]
     1. Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation,
        office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service; a particular


        privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of
        Germany; the immunities of the clergy.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. The state of being insusceptible to disease, certain
        poisons, etc.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]