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Immune   /ɪmjˈun/   Listen
Immune

adjective
1.
Relating to the condition of immunity.
2.
Secure against.  "Immune from criminal prosecution"
3.
Relating to or conferring immunity (to disease or infection).  Synonym: resistant.
4.
(usually followed by 'to') not affected by a given influence.
noun
1.
A person who is immune to a particular infection.



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"Immune" Quotes from Famous Books



... those who were conceived and born children of wrath. He would know the sins, the sinful longings and sinful thoughts and sinful acts, of others, hearing them murmured into his ears in the confessional under the shame of a darkened chapel by the lips of women and of girls; but rendered immune mysteriously at his ordination by the imposition of hands, his soul would pass again uncontaminated to the white peace of the altar. No touch of sin would linger upon the hands with which he would elevate and ...
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce
... life sensibly without taking love and marriage into account. To think of Miss Bremerton as having suffered severely from a love-affair—broken her heart, and injured her health over it—was most distracting. If it had happened once—why, of course, it might happen again. She was not immune; in spite of all her gifts, she was susceptible, and ...
— Elizabeth's Campaign • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... of two articles of diet he appeared to have something heterogeneously one in flavor. The smell of cheese he hoped wouldn't attract rats and remembered vaguely that a corncrib was architecturally immune from rodents. Well, no rat with discrimination would select a corncrib abode anyway. He'd ...
— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple
... I happened to think that anything of that sort, if it had poisoned them once, would keep on poisoning them, while mosquitoes they could protect themselves against, if they didn't become immune, as they most likely would. As there must have been a lot of 'skeeters' to do the kind of job that 'Smith's' face showed, I naturally ...
— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... description. What I propose to do is to make an experiment with a view of drawing out this evil, coaxing it from its lair, so to speak, in order that it may exhaust itself through me and become dissipated for ever. I have already been inoculated," he added; "I consider myself to be immune." ...
— Three John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood


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