encumberment

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English

Etymology

From Middle English encombrement, from Old French encombrement.[1][2] By surface analysis, encumber +‎ -ment.

Noun

encumberment (countable and uncountable, plural encumberments)

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

References

  1. ^ “encǒmbrement, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  2. ^ “encumberment, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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