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Answer for the clue "Safety from prosecution, disease etc ", 8 letters:
immunity

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Immunity is a solo album by Rupert Hine . Originally released in 1981, re-released and digitally remastered in 2001. The album was dedicated to Liam Byrne. The song "Misplaced Love" features a brief chorus by British singer Marianne Faithfull .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of being insusceptible to something; notably: 2 # (context medicine English) Fully protective resistance against infection. 3 # (context law English) An exemption from specified duties, such as payments or services. ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES diplomatic immunity immunity from prosecution formal (= the state of being protected from prosecution ) ▪ He gave information to the police in return for immunity from prosecution. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of not being susceptible; "unsusceptibility to rust" [syn: unsusceptibility ] [ant: susceptibility ] (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease [syn: resistance ] the quality of being unaffected by something; "immunity ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "exempt from service or obligation," from Old French immunité and directly from Latin immunitatem (nominative immunitas ) "exemption from performing public service or charge," from immunis "exempt, free," from assimilated form of in- "not, opposite ...

Usage examples of immunity.

The main reason for this apparent immunity to fear, so psychologists believe, s the Adonian ego.

LAPD wanted to offer Susan Atkins immunity, in exchange for telling what she knew about the murders.

The immunity of the gods, who fight their mock battles while men stand and die, casts into higher relief the tragic situation of the men who risk and suffer not only pain and mutilation but the prospect, inevitable if the war goes on long enough, of death, of the total extinction of the individual personality.

Facing life without parole, Bollinger, who was only thirty-three, decided to toot his whistle in exchange for immunity and a ticket out of town.

He whose thousand-yearlong tapasya compelled mighty Brahma himself to grant him everlasting life and immunity from all destruction.

The Seven Seers were said to be indestructible, protected by the omnipotent hand of Brahma, divine ambassadors granted total immunity.

Interviewed in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, where she had gone following her release from jail, Mary Brunner agreed to cooperate with the police in return for immunity in the Hinman murder.

The aloofness displayed for each other by members of the marine coelenterate species of Gorgonaceae suggests that mechanisms for preserving individuality must have existed long before the evolution of immunity.

The value of an agent which thus improves the general health, insures immunity from coughs, colds, and other diseases, and at the same time produces a healthy and permanent beauty of complexion, is at once apparent.

Inasmuch as most large concerns prosecute both an interstate and a domestic business, while the instrumentalities of interstate commerce and the pecuniary returns from such commerce are ordinarily property within the jurisdiction of some State or other, the task before the Court in drawing the line between the immunity claimed by interstate business on the one hand and the prerogatives claimed by local power on the other has at times involved it in self-contradiction, as successive developments have brought into prominence novel aspects of its complex problem or have altered the perspective in which the interests competing for its protection have appeared.

Department of Immunity is going to do is round up all the free converts by any means necessary.

He simply indicated that all contractors who dealt with the Government were entitled to immunity from taxation upon such transactions.

Nature provided an immunity that allowed some dogs to overcome the infestation and live.

I thought his immunity to fads was part of the key to where fads came from.

These fats are then dumped into the bloodstream where they cause tissue damage, compromise immunity, and are stored in fat cells.