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English
Etymology
From burden + -ous.
Adjective
burdenous (comparative more burdenous, superlative most burdenous)
- (obsolete) Heavy; oppressive.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book BUT STILL THE TYRANT STERNELY AT HIM LAYD, / AND DID HIS YRON AXE SO NIMBLY WIELD, / THAT MANY WOUNDS INTO HIS FLESH IT MADE, / AND WITH HIS BURDENOUS BLOWES HIM SORE DID OUERLADE., Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 12:
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