Legal Definition and Related Resources of Onus
Meaning of Onus
Synonyms of Onus
(Blame), noun
- accusation
- blameworthiness
- charge
- culpability
- error
- fault
- flaw
- guiltiness
- misdeed
- reprehension
- responsibility
- shortcoming
- transgression
(Stigma), noun
- badge
- blemish
- blot
- blotch
- brand
- censure
- condemnation
- degradation
- denunciation
- discredit
- disgrace
- dishonor
- dispraise
- imputation
- infamy
- mark of Cain
- reproach
- scar
- shame
- slur
- smirch
- smudge
- smutch
- soil
- spot
- stain
- taint
- tarnish
(Burden), noun
- affliction
- burdensome requirement
- charge
- drawback
- encumbrance
- handicap
- hindrance
- impediment
- inescapable duty
- interference
- load
- obstruction
- responsibility
- struggle
- unusual task
- weary’ load
- weignt
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Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Onus
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1640s, from Latin onus “load, burden,” figuratively “tax, expense; trouble, difficulty,” from PIE *en-es- “burden” (source of Sanskrit anah “cart, wagon”). Hence legal Latin onus probandi (1722), literally “burden of proving.”
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