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incumberment

incumberment is the archaic form of encumberment.

Meaning of encumberment

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

Forms of incumberment

pluralincumberments

Origin of incumberment

From incumber + -ment.

Questions about incumberment

What is incumberment the archaic form of?
Incumberment is the archaic form of encumberment.

Words near incumberment in the dictionary

  1. incumbents
  2. incumber
  3. incumbered
  4. incumbering
  5. incumberingly
  6. incumberment
  7. incumberments
  8. incumbers
  9. incumbrance
  10. incumbrancer
  11. incumbrancers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: incumberment (page history and authors); encumberment (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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