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onus


noun, plural o·nus·es.

  1. a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden, etc.
  2. burden of proof.Compare onus probandi.
  3. blame or responsibility.

noun Latin.

  1. the burden of proof.

noun plural onuses

  1. a responsibility, task, or burden

noun

  1. law the Latin phrase for burden of proof

n.1640s, from Latin onus “load, burden,” figuratively “tax, expense; trouble, difficulty,” from PIE *en-es- “burden” (cf. Sanskrit anah “cart, wagon”). Hence legal Latin onus probandi (1722), literally “burden of proving.”

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