| 单词 |
cumberment |
| 释义 |
ˈcumberment Now rare or Obs. [f. cumber v. + -ment.] 1. †a. Trouble, distress (obs.); †b. Perplexity, confusion (obs.); c. Hindrance, embarrassment, entanglement.
c1300K. Alis. 472 Of powere To kepe hire fro comburment. 1426Audelay Poems 21 Castis awai covetyse that is cause of cumberment. c1430Hymns Virg. (1867) 56 Kepe he him from þe deuelis combirment. 1597S. Daniel Civ. Wars vi. viii, As they stand in desperat comberment Environd round with horror, blood, and shame. 1599― Musophilus Wks. (1717) 391 Craft (wrapt still in many Comberments) With all her Cunning thrives not. 2. That which cumbers; an encumbrance.
1840Blackw. Mag. XLVIII. 492 ‘Will you not take off your coat?’..this elegant cumberment of the body. |

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