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encumberment en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. 1888, Henry Murger, Bohemians of the Latin Quarter:
   • Then she realized that, in a peculiar lapse of abstraction, she had forgotten about his encumberment. 1912, Frederick Palmer, Over the Pass:

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