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"feminine"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ατιμωρησία"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "ádeia",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ἄδεια"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"word": "büntetlenség"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "refsileysi"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "impunità"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "jazasyzdyq",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"word": "жазасыздық"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "impūnitās"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "nekaznivost",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "неказнивост"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"word": "straffrihet"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"word": "straffridom"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bezkarność"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "impunidade"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "imunidade"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "beznakázannostʹ",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "безнака́занность"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "нека̀жњиво̄ст"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "nekažnjivost"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "beztrestnosť"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "nekaznovanost"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "impunidad"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "straffrihet"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "bezkárnistʹ",
"sense": "freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "безка́рність"
}
],
"word": "impunity"
}
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