burdenous
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]burdenous (comparative more burdenous, superlative most burdenous)
- (obsolete) Heavy; oppressive.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book BUT STILL THE TYRANT STERNELY AT HIM LAYD, / AND DID HIS YRON AXE SO NIMBLY WIELD, / THAT MANY WOUNDS INTO HIS FLESH IT MADE, / AND WITH HIS BURDENOUS BLOWES HIM SORE DID OUERLADE., Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 12: