cumbrance
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
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 Ingelow, Jean
Our heart is made large: ye are not brought into cumbrance by us, though that ye vex yourselves of a true meaning.
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
Yet, into whatever scenes he went, there in some guise did the throb of his pain evidently follow him, and he lay hitching his great shoulder as if to rid it of the cumbrance.
From The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains by Wister, Owen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.