Crossword clues for incumbrance
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incumbrance \In*cum"brance\, n. [See Encumbrance.] [Written also encumbrance.]
A burdensome and troublesome load; anything that impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; hindrance; check.
--Cowper.(Law) A burden or charge upon property; a claim or lien upon an estate, which may diminish its value.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see encumbrance.
Wiktionary
n. A burden; a thing that must be carried.
WordNet
n. a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage) [syn: encumbrance]
an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind" [syn: burden, load, encumbrance, onus]
any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome [syn: hindrance, hitch, preventive, preventative, encumbrance, interference]
Usage examples of "incumbrance".
Mysteries were but symbols of those intellectual ones by which the soul was to be purged of its vice-spots and stains, and freed of the incumbrance of its earthly prison, so that it might rise unimpeded to the source from which it came.
He had a house and lot all paid for, with no incumbrances only a mortgage of 150 dollars and a lame mother.
How could you help regarding as an incumbrance and a discredit to you, an idle dragooning chap, who was an incumbrance and a discredit to himself, excepting under discipline?
It is a common practice with the Pawnees, and probably with other roving tribes, when departing on a distant expedition, which will not admit of incumbrance or delay, to leave their aged and infirm with a supply of provisions sufficient for a temporary subsistence.