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Definition of Onuses
1. onus [n] - See also: onus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Onuses
Literary usage of Onuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1879)
"Among the onuses of embarrassment other than those already stated, there is the
insufficiency of the laws regarding the assessment of property and ..."
2. The Correspondence of King George the Third with Lord North from 1768 to 1783 by George (1867)
"tempted to avoid, and that without one single grievance France onuses to be the
aggressor. ... onuses ..."
3. Vocabulary of Philosophy: Psychological, Ethical, Metaphysical, with by William Fleming, Henry Calderwood (1890)
"... doctrine of Final onuses, or Ends. It is made the basis of an argument for
the existence of God, as by Socrates, Memorabilia, i. 4, 4; iv. ..."
4. Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the Principles of by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Causes producing dialects ; onuses maintaining, producing, or extending homogeneity
of speech. Ul->strations : history of the German language ; of the Latin ..."
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