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encumberment

encumberment noun: encumbrance.

Noun

encumberment (countable and uncountable, plural encumberments)

  1. encumbrance
    • 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.1888, Henry Murger, Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
    • Then she realized that, in a peculiar lapse of abstraction, she had forgotten about his encumberment.1912, Frederick Palmer, Over the Pass

Forms of encumberment

pluralencumberments

Origin of encumberment

From Middle English encombrement, from Old French encombrement. By surface analysis, encumber + -ment.

Questions about encumberment

What does encumberment mean?
Encumberment means encumbrance.
What part of speech is encumberment?
Encumberment is a noun.
What is the plural of encumberment?
The plural of encumberment is encumberments.

Words near encumberment in the dictionary

  1. encumberedness
  2. encumberer
  3. encumberers
  4. encumbering
  5. encumberingly
  6. encumberment
  7. encumberments
  8. encumbers
  9. encumbrance
  10. encumbranced
  11. encumbrancer

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