† incumbencen.
Obsolete.
a. The fact of being incumbent; an overhanging or impending.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun] > nearness, approach, or imminence
nighness1548
towardness1549
propinquity1611
approacha1616
coming1626
looming1627
impendencya1632
fall1647
imminence1655
impendence1657
instancy1658
imminency1665
soonness1668
incumbence1677
simmering1844
proximity1876
1677 M. Hale Contempl. ii. 227 When the Necessity and Fear, and Incumbence of Evil is removed [etc.].
b. A matter that is incumbent; a duty or obligation.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > [noun] > a duty or moral necessity
needOE
deedc1400
necessitya1500
office1534
work (also duty) of necessitya1602
incumbency?1608
remorsea1616
incumbence1684
call1704
commitment1837
calling1857
geis1965
1684 R. Burthogge Argument Infants Baptisme i. 18 Which Duty and Incumbence, and the Consequentialness of it from the Covenant, is [etc.].
1700 P. Rycaut Contin. Knolles' Hist. Turks III. 131 The next care and incumbence of the Generals was to provide Winter-quarters.
1768 Woman of Honor III. 137 The education of his only son..he held too sacred an incumbence to trust to any one but himself.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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