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Definition of Burthened
1. burthen [v] - See also: burthen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burthened
Literary usage of Burthened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Golden Grove: A Choice Manual Containing what is to be Believed by Jeremy Taylor (1842)
"A Litany of Confession to be made use of by the Penitent Soul, that finds itself
burthened with a true sense of sin. ..."
2. A Comparative Grammar of the Sanscrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian by Franz Bopp, Edward Backhouse Eastwick, Horace Hayman Wilson (1845)
"The root being burthened with the reduplication might, perhaps, produce a weakening
in the final portion of the word, similar to that through wliich the ..."
3. Commentaries on Colonial and Foreign Laws: Generally, and in Their Conflict by William Burge (1838)
"Means by which the heir is secured against the consequences of accepting a
succession so burthened as to prejudice the four-fifths.—Secured only against the ..."
4. George Fox's Journal by George Fox, Percy Livingstone Parker, William Robertson Nicoll (1903)
"At length we came to Rochester, but I was much spent, being so extremely laden
and burthened with the world's spirits that my life was oppressed under them. ..."
5. The Cabinet History of England, Civil, Military and Ecclesiastical: From the by Charles MacFarlane (1855)
"... doubly or trebly burthened, must soon be reduced to the same dead level of
want and woe ; and thus pauperism would stride throughout the land! ..."
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