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English
Noun
cumbrance (countable and uncountable, plural cumbrances)
- (obsolete) encumbrance
1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: J M for John Starkey , →OCLC, page 52, lines 453–454:Extol not Riches then, the toyl of Fools,
The wiſe mans cumbrance if not ſnare,