encumberment

English

Etymology

From encumber +‎ -ment.

Noun

encumberment (countable and uncountable, plural encumberments)

1. encumbrance
   • 1888, Henry Murger, Bohemians of the Latin Quarter‎^[1]:

     The paths of art, so choked and so dangerous, are, despite encumberment and obstacles, day by day more crowded, and consequently Bohemians were never more numerous.

   • 1912, Frederick Palmer, Over the Pass‎^[2]:

     Then she realized that, in a peculiar lapse of abstraction, she had forgotten about his encumberment.