encumberment
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English encombrement, from Old French encombrement.[1][2] By surface analysis, encumber + -ment.
Noun
[edit]encumberment (countable and uncountable, plural encumberments)
- 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.
References
[edit]- ^ “encǒmbrement, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- ^ “encumberment, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
