encumbrance
noun
something that encumbers; something burdensome, useless, or superfluous; burden; hindrance.
incumbrance
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a variation of
encumbrance.
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a word derived from
incumber.
Example Sentences
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That may be now a stifling incumbrance, which was once the only possible symbol of a living belief.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
I was even concocting some bold plan of getting rid of this incumbrance, when I felt Sebastian convulsively clutch my arm.
From Barbarossa and Other Tales by Paul Heyse
There is, I think, nothing which I so much dread, as the thought of being an unprofitable Missionary, an incumbrance to the society and to the church.
From The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 by Various
He is impossible, I know, and often an incumbrance, but he's always appealing and noble, and I love him dearly.”
From Royal Highness by Thomas Mann
Some, like the Fox, have even larger circumstances than they know what to do with, insomuch that they are rather a charge and incumbrance than of any true use and pleasure to them.
From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop
