burthensome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

Obsolete

"All ye that, as I do, have felt this smart, Ye know how burthensome 'tis at my heart."
""I can, madam, but I do not love one," said Anne, thinking of her most burthensome one."
"A labour-rent thus became more difficult to enforce, while the increase of wealth among the tenantry and the rise of a new spirit of independence made it more burthensome to those who rendered it."

From burthen + -some.

more burthensome (comparative) most burthensome (superlative)

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