incumbrance
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French encombrance, from encombrer.
Pronunciation
Noun
incumbrance (countable and uncountable, plural incumbrances)
- A burden; a thing that must be carried.
- 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:
- 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.
- (law) an interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.
- (law) One who is dependent on another.
- a widow without incumbrances, i.e. without children
Synonyms
Translations
burden — see encumbrance
interest, right, burden or liability — see encumbrance