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- noun Plural form of
encumberment .
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Examples
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Their experience, opinions, and judgement were as good or better than ours in many ways, maybe due to the lack of modern encumberments in the prime of their lives.
The Best Day of All? 2008
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If the CIA, the FBI, the NSA and the Military can develop secure avenues of information sharing then a system can and should be implemented to allow the president to indulge in communication exclusive of the shadowy encumberments of theoretical examination.
Dwayne Raymond: Will We Electronically Neuter The President? 2009
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It is now free from all encumberments and looking better than ever.
Bigelow Unbound Brooks of Sheffield 2008
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People had wandered far enough from such knowledge; -- with the accumulation of complexities, with the piling up of encumberments of thought and deed during fifteen hundred busy years of intensive civilization.
The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Kenneth Morris 1908
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