cumbrance

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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

And it seemed that the more proper every word was, the worse he liked it, for the cumbrance that he had to study out a better one to surpass it.

From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Stevens, Monica

Our chance may come another time, and we want not the cumbrance of children on our march.

From In the Wars of the Roses A Story for the Young by Everett-Green, Evelyn

But, O good Lord,' saith he, 'when these are sick,— I fear me, Lord, this excellent workmanship Of Thine is counted for a cumbrance then.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean

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 Northcote, Rosalind