ppl. a. [f. ENCUMBER v. + -ING2.] That encumbers.

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1641.  Milton, Animadv. (1851), 188. Whosoever … labours to keep such an incumbring surcharge of earthly things.

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1795.  Southey, Joan of Arc, I. 404. From his belt he took The encumbering sword.

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1838–9.  Hallam, Hist. Lit., IV. IV. vii. 319, note. The feeble encumbering pronoun which.

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1872.  H. Macmillan, True Vine, vii. 300. These barren, encumbering branches.

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  Hence Encumberingly adv.

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