See Also: Immunity(money)
immunity(dictionary)
Immunity(medicine)
immunity(encyclopedia)
immunity(dictionary)
Immunity(health)
IMMUNITY(law)
passive immunity(medicine)
natural immunity(medicine)
maternal immunity(medicine)

immunity (iou)



immunity noun. LME.
[Latin immunitas, formed as IMMUNE adjective & noun: see -ITY.]
Law. Exemption from taxation, jurisdiction, an obligation or duty, etc.; gen. privilege. LME.
diplomatic immunity: see DIPLOMATIC adjective.
b. An exemption or privilege; spec. (Ecclesiastical) (an) exemption from a secular or civil liability, duty, etc. LME.
Undue freedom, licence. L16-L17.
Freedom or protection from or from anything injurious or distasteful; lack of susceptibility (to). L16.
P. Ackroyd He was offered immunity from prosecution if he would testify.
Biology. The ability to resist a specific infection, poison, etc., esp. owing to lymphocytes and phagocytes and (in vertebrates) antibodies. Cf. IMMUNE adjective 2. L19.
Betty Smith Vaccination was a giving of the harmless form of smallpox to work up immunity.