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Definition of Burthening
1. burthen [v] - See also: burthen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burthening
Literary usage of Burthening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips (1796)
"... and ragement to trade ; and that burthening large /inn» were made by the
fellers while trade, is in effect to burthen land, ..."
2. The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Commons (1782)
"... give his negative to burthening the people with the expence of fo large a landed
... burthening ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1830)
"The public will fancy, that,far from burthening our credit •with the weight of
a new debt, we merely take away from circulation an onerous currency, ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1830)
"The public will fancy, that,far from burthening our credit with the weight of a
... the burthening herself with a new debt, instead of being relieved by the ..."
5. A Lecture on Heads by George Alexander Stevens, Frederick Pilon, Charles Lee Lewes (1821)
"Why the Waterman's company must buy it, or they never could work their boats any
more: there's a scheme to pay off the nation's debt, without burthening the ..."
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