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A charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)
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incumbrance
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WordNet
Word definitions in 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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see encumbrance .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A burden; a thing that must be carried.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
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.