incumbrance
- a variation of encumbrance.
- a word derived from incumber.
Example Sentences
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Nothing short of a large sum of ready money, enough to clear off every mortgage and incumbrance at once, could enable this young fellow to save them.
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James
We have added eighty acres to our land, making one thousand six hundred and thirty-three acres free of incumbrance.
From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey
A vast country, rapidly increasing in wealth and population, would have been an incumbrance, rather than an addition, to the power of England.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various
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
Meanwhile Gussie had flapped to the open door and was engaged in ridding her own slippers of the incumbrance.
From Marjorie Dean, College Senior by Lester, Pauline
