- a variation of encumbrance.
incumbrance
Example Sentences
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Although the house was free of incumbrance, yet there was no money with which to pay taxes, or to pay the household expenses, even if they lived on a more moderate scale.
From The Dorrance Domain by Wells, Carolyn
He is impossible, I know, and often an incumbrance, but he's always appealing and noble, and I love him dearly.”
From Royal Highness by Mann, Thomas
Say that you wish the will to be canceled, and your grandson to come into his inheritance without incumbrance.
From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie
At any rate she doesn't consider me as a useless incumbrance of the earth because I can't play golf or shoot birds.
From A Top-Floor Idyl by Van Schaick, George
I was even concocting some bold plan of getting rid of this incumbrance, when I felt Sebastian convulsively clutch my arm.
From Barbarossa and Other Tales by Heyse, Paul
