incumbrance

plural incumbrances

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of encumbrance (“that which encumbers”).

   I was then lying at length upon that very couch, the scene of Mr. H . . .'s polite joys, in an undress which was with all the art of negligence flowing loose, and in a most tempting disorder: no stay, no hoop . . . no incumbrance whatever.

   Fanny Hill

   1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC

2. countableuncountablelawAn interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.
3. countableuncountablelawOne who is dependent on another.

   a widow without incumbrances (i.e. without children)