Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which cumbers or encumbers; an encumbrance; a hindrance; an embarrassment.
- noun The state of being cumbered, overburdened, obstructed, hindered, or perplexed; cumber; trouble.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Encumbrance.
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- noun obsolete
encumbrance
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Examples
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"'cumbrance," and in his own happy life there is always sympathy for the poor and oppressed.
Dick Lionheart Mary Rowles Jarvis
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How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
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How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
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Now shall I tell you, said the damosel; this sword that I am girt withal doth me great sorrow and cumbrance, for I may not be delivered of this sword but by a knight, but he must be a passing good man of his hands and of his deeds, and without villainy or treachery, and without treason.
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How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Deuteronomy 1. 1999
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So Moses saw Israel in their glory and prosperity, and he said, 'How can I myself bear your cumbrance!'
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various
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Mr Blake, however, was allowed to return to his living, but 'not without the cumbrance of a _Factious Lecturer_,' and was not in full possession till after the Restoration.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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Give me the necessity of working for my daily bread so that I will not feel as though I were a useless cumbrance upon the earth; allow me an opportunity now and then of doing
The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905
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Now shall I tell you, said the damosel; this sword that I am girt withal doth me great sorrow and cumbrance, for I may not be delivered of this sword but by a knight, but he must be a passing good man of his hands and of his deeds, and without villainy or treachery, and without treason.
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If this consent be to evil, then as fast it hath, by cumbrance of sin, the office of that same spirit that first made him suggestion of that same sin; and if it be to the good, then as fast it hath, by grace, the office of that same spirit that first made him stirring [313] to that same good.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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