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A sentence that convicts the accuser's mind before any judge gets involved.
means A claim that someone has done wrong, made before any proof has been tested.
from From Latin accusare, 'to call to account' — built from ad- (toward) plus causa (cause, lawsuit, legal case). The word walked straight out of the Roman courtroom: to accuse was literally to drag someone's cause into the open and point at it. It passed through Old French acuser into English largely unchanged, still carrying that whiff of formal charge and public finger-pointing.
- etymology
- from latin causa, meaning cause or lawsuit
- psychology
- often reveals what the accuser secretly fears doing
- burden
- legally requires proof, socially requires none
- velocity
- travels faster than any retraction ever will