onus-, oner- +

1. To officially declare that someone is not to blame or is not guilty of wrongdoing.
2. To relieve someone from an obligation, task, or responsibility.
3. To clear, as of an accusation; to free from guilt or blame; to exculpate.

1. Freed from any question of guilt; acquitted.
2. Showed or stated that someone or something is not guilty: "The police report exonerated the driver from all responsibility for the collision."

1. Unloading; disburdening; freeing from any charge or imputation.
2. Showing or stating that (someone or something) is not to be blamed for anything bad that was happening.

1. The condition of being relieved from blame or obligation.
2. The act of vindicating or defending against criticism, or censure, etc.
3. The act of discharging, unburdening, or freeing morally from a charge or imputation.

1. Freeing from a burden or obligation.
2. To clear from accusation or blame.

1. Fitted for, or carrying, a burden.
2. Fitted or intended for the carriage of burdens; comprising a burden.

To load, to burden.

The act of loading.

1. Representing a great burden or much trouble.
2. Involving obligations that are more disadvantageous than advantageous.
3. Troublesome or oppressive; burdensome.
4. The figuratively heavy load imposed by something irksome or annoying.
5. Having or involving obligations or responsibilities; especially, legal ones, that outweigh the advantages: "He realized that he had signed an onerous agreement."
6. In law, entailing obligations that exceed advantages.
7. Etymology: from Old French (h)onereus (14th century, Modern French onéreux), from Latin onerosus, from onus, oner-, "burden".

1. In an onerous manner.
2. A reference to or descriptive of someone, or something, being burdensome or troublesome.

1. Involving, imposing, or constituting a burden; troublesome.
2. Having legal obligations that outweigh any advantages.

1. A duty or responsibility: "The onus is on the man to make the first move for reconciliation."
2. The blame for something: "He'll always bear the onus of having caused the auto accident."
3. A difficult or disagreeable responsibility or necessity; a burden or obligation.
4. The burden of proof or responsibility for acting in a legal proceeding.
5. The responsibility or duty to do something.

Burden of proving.

1. Having an irritable disposition; cantankerous (difficult or irritating to deal with).
2. Mean-spirited, disagreeable, and contrary in disposition.

This word is NOT related to the onus-, oner- Latin family of words. It is included in this unit only for purposes of clarification and to help anyone who thinks these orneriness and ornery words came from this onerary, onerous family.

1. Uncooperative and irritable.
2. Meager (stingy), whether out of poverty or lack of generosity.
3. Etymology: from about 1816, American Enlgish dialectal contraction of "ordinary". "Commonplace", hence "of poor quality, coarse, ugly." By about 1860, the sense had evolved to being "mean, cantankerous."

These words are NOT related to this onus-, oner- family. They were placed here simply to point out that they are not relatives of those words that are derived from the Latin sources of this unit.