cumbrance
[ kuhm-bruh ns ]
/ ˈkʌm brəns /
noun
trouble; bother.
burden; encumbrance.
Origin of cumbrance
1275–1325; Middle English
combraunce, aphetic variant of
acombraunce defeat, harassment; see
encumbrance
Words nearby cumbrance
cumberland mountains,
cumberland sauce,
cumbernauld,
cumbersome,
cumbia,
cumbrance,
cumbria,
cumbrian,
cumbrian mountains,
cumbrous,
cumbungi
Example sentences from the Web for cumbrance
How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy, Volume I |Charles Henry MackintoshSo I parted with my public and my ferrets—for she was dead a' ready, my wife was, and I hadn't no cumbrance.
Felix Holt, The Radical |George EliotOur chance may come another time, and we want not the cumbrance of children on our march.
In the Wars of the Roses |Evelyn Everett-Green
British Dictionary definitions for cumbrance
cumbrance
/ (ˈkʌmbrəns) /
noun
a burden, obstacle, or hindrance
trouble or bother