What's the difference between incumbrance and unencumber?
Incumbrance
Definition:
(n.) A burdensome and troublesome load; anything that impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; hindrance; check.
(n.) A burden or charge upon property; a claim or lien upon an estate, which may diminish its value.
Example Sentences:
(1) "So you are the fragrant Mrs Copperfield's incumbrance," he said to me.
Unencumber
Definition:
(v. t.) To free from incumbrance; to disencumber.
Example Sentences:
(1) An hydroxyl group in the 5 position of the indole nucleus, sterically unencumbered by hydroxyls in neighboing positions, is essential.
(2) This unencumbered view allows a more thorough removal of diseased tissue, especially in the posterior commissure and subglottis.
(3) • UK police forces and justice systems able to protect British citizens, unencumbered by unnecessary interference from the European institutions, including the European court of human rights .
(4) One hr following the competition test, each pair of animals was given access to a single unencumbered spout for a 1-hr period.
(5) Swimming does that, I say – I think it's because it speaks to something in us, something about who we intrinsically want to be – free, equal, unencumbered.
(6) Recording this variable with the apparatus employed permits measurement of changes in the level of ventilation while subjects are freely ambulant and unencumbered by invasive and flow-resistive respiratory apparatus.
(7) In a letter to the Guardian this week, Georgina Mace, professor of conservation science at Imperial College, London and Catherine Redgwell, professor of international law at UCL, said that investment in geo-engineering research had already begun and, "without international governance structures, schemes could soon be implemented unencumbered by the safeguards needed".
(8) Unencumbered by debts, all three amassed huge savings, almost all of it through 40 years of manufacturing prowess dating back to the 1950s.
(9) Saudi Arabia is very aware that Iran will be able to sell its crude unencumbered by sanctions on the international market very soon and will use all means at its disposal to make sure Iran doesn’t recapture the market share it lost over the past four years,” he said.
(10) In fact, its unencumbered design may make it more appropriate for advanced procedures than conventional systems.
(11) And, as soon as he could, he kicked over the traces; one of the most poignant moments in the memoir comes when a girlfriend gives him the choice of telling her more about himself, or the end of the relationship; he chooses the latter, and a future unencumbered by the past.
(12) Ovomucoid, which contains multiantennary complex structures at all glycosylation sites, may on the other hand display its glycans, unencumbered by the protein surface, in conformations similar to either the free glycans or the distal complexes observed in this work.
(13) I think there is a deformación profesional that affects a lot of them that makes it difficult for them to have an unencumbered relationship with the truth,” he said.
(14) The dumping of refugees in PNG is an outrage to morals, but it illustrates how unencumbered by conscience Rudd is to enact policy that secures electoral votes for power.
(15) The public good of freely accessible, unencumbered research generates more economic value for the public than the quick-hit sugar-rush you get from charging the public on the way in and again on the way out.
(16) They're not quite free of budgetary restrictions, perhaps, but they're unencumbered by local politics, and can cut and paste neighbourhoods, orchestrate traffic flows and command the weather.
(17) "An advantage the developing world has over the developed world is being unencumbered by aging infrastructure that needs to be rebuilt – a lot can be built from scratch, and built better."
(18) The results included a significant decrease in cadence (-6.3% of unencumbered walking; p less than 0.05) when comparing walking with surface electrodes with walking without any electrodes.
(19) The use of POL offers a system unencumbered by relatively high numbers of background foci which, when present, appear to be basically different from those found using the SRBC antigen.
(20) I hope my children feel unencumbered by any of the assumptions and biases left over from more prohibitive generations.