besetment
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He made every effort to shake off this new besetment, this fresh assault upon the tranquility he had attained.
From The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair
Jane listened attentively, and promised to remember the warning, and guard against what she knew to be her greatest besetment.
From For John's Sake and Other Stories. by Annie Frances Perram
It was now two hundred days since their besetment, and they had drifted more than six hundred miles, with all in health save the doctor.
From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely
The end of the besetment came at last.
From Explorers and Travellers by Adolphus W. Greely
Our work was now at an end, and we had only to wait for a northerly or westerly wind to release us from our present "besetment," for, in fact, it was now nothing more.
From Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1 by Sir William Edward Parry
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