besetment

In the mist of her besetment the woman found herself thinking that the fine little hands in this gesture should have been lace-beruffled at the wrist.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Harry Leon Wilson

For since he had come out of prison he was every day more subject to this besetment of recalling the past.

From The Prisoner by Alice Brown

And the curious part of the besetment is that I have known all along that I was killing your love for me.

From The City of Numbered Days by Francis Lynde

This besetment, on September 12, 1846, must have been a grievous blow to Franklin, who was now practically assured of the existence of the northwest passage along the continental coast of North America.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely

After a long and dangerous besetment in the polar ice to the north of Bering Strait, the American whaling-ship Navrach was abandoned August 14, 1897.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely