burthen
noun
an archaic variant of burden.
burthensome
-
a word derived from
burthen.
Example Sentences
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By 1712 it had become "burthensome to the nation" to house bankrupts in London's two debtors' prisons, despite the exaction of stiff entrance fees and rents for all cells better than the most wretched.
From Time Magazine Archive
They are burthensome to me, And eat too much.161 When rudeness is necessary it is uttered with some vigour, as in The Fatal Dowry, where this is what Romont gets for his well-meant pains: Rochfort.
From Philip Massinger by A. H. Cruickshank
Still, notwithstanding my success, my life began to grow burthensome.
From Rattlin the Reefer by Frederick Marryat
The penalty of death was attached to their violation, and producers subjected to the most burthensome control.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
Brightly and joyously as he had looked on life at the outset of his career, its close seemed often clouded, sad, and burthensome, more than he was himself aware.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various
