Meaning of incumbrance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An interest, right, burden, or liability attached to a title of land, such as a lien or mortgage.
   countable, uncountable
2. One who is dependent on another.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“I was then lying at length upon that very couch, the scene of Mr. H . . .'s polite joys, in an undress which was with all the art of negligence flowing loose, and in a most tempting disorder: no stay, no hoop . . . no incumbrance whatever.”

Fanny Hill

“a widow without incumbrances (i.e. without children)”

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