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Word Meanings - IMMUNITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

free from a public service; pref. im- not + munis complaisant, obliging, cf. munus service, duty: cf. F. immunité. See Common, and 1. Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service;

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free from a public service; pref. im- not + munis complaisant, obliging, cf. munus service, duty: cf. F. immunité. See Common, and 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. 2. Freedom; exemption; as, immunity from error.

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  • RIGHT-RUNNING
    Straight; direct.
  • FLATTER
    1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
  • VOLUNTARINESS
    The quality or state of being voluntary; spontaneousness; specifically, the quality or state of being free in the exercise of one's will.
  • EIGHTFOLD
    Eight times a quantity.
  • HONORABLE
    1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
  • PRAISEWORTHINESS
    The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
  • LEAVE-TAKING
    Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
  • DISMISSAL
    Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
  • LEAVED
    Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
  • INSULT
    1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
  • DEALBATION
    Act of bleaching; a whitening.
  • RIGHTEOUSNESS
    The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
  • INSULTMENT
    Insolent treatment; insult. "My speech of insultment ended." Shak.
  • VISITATION
    The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually
  • HONORABLENESS
    1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
  • EIGHTEEN
    Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.
  • DEALFISH
    A long, thin fish of the arctic seas .
  • EIGHT
    An island in a river; an ait. "Osiers on their eights." Evelyn.
  • EIGHTIETH
    1. The next in order after seventy-ninth. 2. Consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions.
  • RESPECTER
    One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
  • FREIGHT
    1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use
  • APPRAISER
    One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
  • BELEAVE
    To leave or to be left. May.
  • BRIGHT
    See I
  • SLEIGHTLY
    Cunningly. Huloet.
  • THYROIDEAL
    Thyroid.
  • COUNTER WEIGHT
    A counterpoise.
  • ENTERDEAL
    Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
  • DISRESPECTABILITY
    Want of respectability. Thackeray.
  • BEFLATTER
    To flatter excessively.
  • SLEIGHT
    1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous

 

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