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encumbering, ppl. a.|ɛnˈkʌmbərɪŋ|
[f. encumber v. +-ing2.]
That encumbers.
1641Milton Animadv. (1851) 188 Whosoever..labours to keep such an incumbring surcharge of earthly things. 1795Southey Joan of Arc i. 404 From his belt he took The encumbering sword. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. IV. iv. vii. 319 note, The feeble encumbering pronoun ‘which’. 1872H. Macmillan True Vine vii. 300 These barren, encumbering branches.
Hence enˈcumberingly adv. |