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encumberment

noun

Etymology

From Middle English encombrement, from Old French encombrement. By surface analysis, encumber + -ment.

  1. derived from encombrement
  2. inherited from encombrement

Definitions

  1. encumbrance

    • The paths of art, so choked and so dangerous, are, despite encumberment and obstacles, day by day more crowded, and consequently Bohemians were never more numerous.
    • Then she realized that, in a peculiar lapse of abstraction, she had forgotten about his encumberment.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA