weight
I
(burden) noun
care, cumbrance, duty, encumbrance, incubus, liability, load, mass, obligation, onus, oppression, ponderousness, pressure, responsibility
II
(credibility) noun
belief, certainty, confidence, credence, credibleness, credit, faith, impressiveness, likelihood, positiveness, reliance, trustworthiness, validity
III
(importance) noun
authority, consequence, degree of importance, effect, efficacy, eminence, emphasis, enormity, force, import, impressiveness, influence, interest, magnitude, merit, moment, potency, power, prominence, quality, seriousness, significance, value
associated concepts: weight of the evidence
foreign phrases:
- Ponderantur testes, non numerantur. — Witnesses are weighed, not counted
- Testimonia ponderanda sunt, non numeranda. — Evidence is to be weighed, not counted
IV
index
burden, clout, corpus, degree (magnitude), dint, dominance, eminence, emphasis, import, importance, incumbrance (burden), influence, interest (concern), load, magnitude, materiality (consequence), onus (burden), power, predominance, pressure, prestige, primacy, significance, stress (accent)
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006