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† ˈcumbrance Obs.
Also comber-, combr-, -ance, -aunce, etc.
[f. cumber v. + -ance: cf. accumbrance, encumbrance.]
1. The action of ‘cumbering’; ? overcoming, vanquishing: or ? entanglement, temptation.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 1019 To many on comyþ þarfore evyl Þurghe cumberaunce of þe devyl. c1420Metr. St. Kath. (Halliw.) 18 Thou have them fro the fendys comberauns! 1493Festivall (1515) 33 To kepe them from combraunce of the fende that they falle not in to deedly synne.
2. The action of troubling or harassing; trouble, distress, annoyance.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. B. 4 Kark & combraunce huge. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xviii. 265 Care and combraunce is comen to vs alle. c1440Promp. Parv. 89 Comerawnce, vexacio. c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon i. 19 To waraunt thee..from evyl and from any combraunce. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 429 Drewedes with bibill, bell and buik..Witht cruell cursing and with cummerance Thair wareit hes rycht rudlie the Romans. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 81 There is no felicitie..which is not darkened with some clowde of combrance and adversitie. 1639Fuller Holy War v. xix. (1840) 275 The army will be very heterogeneous..which must needs occasion much cumbrance.
b. Trouble of mind; perplexity.
c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 1086 A merchalle is put oft tymes in gret comberaunce For som lordes þat ar of blod royalle & litelle of lyvelode per chaunce, And some of gret lyvelode & no blode royalle. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 37 As it is very hard to know, so doth it bring more businesse and comberance to some wittes than is expedient.
c. A cause of trouble or annoyance; a trouble.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xii. 46 Catel and kynde witte [1393 C. xiii. 245 So couetise of catel] was combraunce to hem alle. 1570T. Norton tr. Nowel's Catech. (1853) 178 The incommodities and cumbrances that light upon us in this life. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 145 Lest they take detriment from the aforesaid cumbrances.
3. The action of hindering, encumbering, or burdening, or state of being hindered, etc.; hindrance, burden, encumbrance.
1535Coverdale Deut. i. 12 How can I alone beare soche combraunce, and charge, and stryfe amonge you? 1603Drayton Bar. Wars (R.), T' avoid the cumbrance of each hindering doubt. 1621Ainsworth Annot. Pentat. Deut. i. 12 By your cumbrance, understand, the cumbrance that commeth unto me by you.
b. That which encumbers; an encumbrance.
1644J. Fary Gods Severity (1645) 26 A fruitlesse Christian is a very burthen and cumbrance to the place hee lives in. 1664Evelyn Sylva (1679) 5 In transplanting, and removing cumbrances. 1671Milton P.R. ii. 454 Extol not Riches then..The wise man's cumbrance if not snare. |