cumbrance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]cumbrance (countable and uncountable, plural cumbrances)
- (obsolete) encumbrance
- 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 52, lines 453–454:
- Extol not Riches then, the toyl of Fools,
The wiſe mans cumbrance if not ſnare,
References
[edit]- ^ “cumbrance, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
“cumbrance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.