Meanings
nouncumbrance (countable and uncountable, plural cumbrances)
plural cumbrances
- countableobsoleteuncountableencumbrance
Extol not Riches then, the toyl of Fools, The wiſe mans cumbrance if not ſnare,
1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 52, lines 453–454
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