cumbrance
Americannoun
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trouble; bother.
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burden; encumbrance.
noun
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a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
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trouble or bother
Etymology
Origin of cumbrance
1275–1325; Middle English combraunce, aphetic variant of acombraunce defeat, harassment; see encumbrance
Example Sentences
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Ladders fall toward the excessive end of Mr. Ten Eyck’s sliding scale of regulatory cumbrance; on the more helpful end are procedures required to track produce when there is a disease or illness outbreak.
From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2017
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.
From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Rosalind Northcote
But where, O where, Under this heap of precedent, this mound Of customs, modes, and maxims, cumbrance rare, Shall the Myself be found?
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow
So Moses saw Israel in their glory and prosperity, and he said, 'How can I myself bear your cumbrance!'
From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various
Think, Manhood, on substance, And put out gluttony for cumbrance, And keep you with good governance, For this longeth to a knight.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
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