Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IM-MUN'I-TY, n. [Fr. immunité; immunitas, from immunis, free, exempt; in and munus, charge, office, duty.]

1. Freedom or exemption from obligation. To be exempted from observing the rites or duties of the church, is an immunity.
2. Exemption from any charge, duty, office, tax or imposition; a particular privilege; as, the immunities of the free cities of Germany; the immunities of the clergy.
3. Freedom; as, an immunity from error. Dryden.