All 3 Uses of
incumbent
in
War and Peace
- * and he felt it incumbent on him, as a king and an ally, to confer on state affairs with Alexander's envoy.†
Chpt 9 *
- Balashev, feeling it incumbent on him to reply, said that from the Russian side things did not appear in so gloomy a light.†
Chpt 9
- He had never danced like that in Moscow and would even have considered such a very free and easy manner improper and in bad form, but here he felt it incumbent on him to astonish them all by something unusual, something they would have to accept as the regular thing in the capital though new to them in the provinces.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(incumbent as in: the incumbent governor) the person who currently holds an official position