exemption

exemption, immunity are comparable when meaning the act or fact of freeing or the state of being free or freed from something burdensome, disagreeable, or painful.

Exemption is more restricted in its meaning, for it applies usually to a release from some legal or similarly imposed obligation or burden to which others in the same circumstances and not similarly freed are liable

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married men with families may apply for exemption from military service

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[they] have no vices, but they buy that exemption at a price, for one is inclined to ask whether . .. they really have any virtues— Ellis

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Immunity covers all cases for which an exemption may be given or obtained, but the term carries so strong an implication of privilege and of freedom from certain common restrictions that it is often used in reference to persons or classes of persons especially favored by the law or by nature

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entitled to the rights of a citizen, and clothed with all the rights and immunities which the Constitution and laws of the State attached to that character— Taney

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the question of the immunities of the clergy had been publicly raised— Froude

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the man of creative imagination pays a ghastly price for all his superiorities and immunities— Mencken

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