Verdict vs Accusation - What's the difference?
verdict | accusation |
(lb) A decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest.
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*:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty —is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
An opinion or judgement.
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The act of accusing.
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(legal) A formal charge brought against a person in a court of law.
An allegation.
As nouns the difference between verdict and accusation
is that verdict is (lb) a decision on an issue of fact in a civil or criminal case or an inquest while accusation is the act of accusing.verdict
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(wikipedia verdict)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* verdictiveExternal links
* * ----accusation
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete) accusasiowne * (obsolete) accusacionNoun
(en noun)- [They] set up over his head his accusation - Matthew 27:37