- a variation of encumbrance.
incumbrance
Example Sentences
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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 Pauline Lester
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
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
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
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 John Humphrey Noyes
