The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like.
An unwelcome burden, presence, or obligation.
They gathered soberly in the farthest recess of the ward and gossiped about him in malicious, offended undertones, rebelling against his presence as a ghastly imposition and resenting him malevolently for the nauseating truth of which he was bright reminder.
From Middle English imposicioun, from Old French imposicion, from Latin impositio.
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