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assailment

noun

Etymology

From assail + -ment.

  1. derived from ad — “at, towards”
  2. derived from assalio
  3. derived from assalir
  4. inherited from assailen
  5. suffixed as assailment — “assail + ment”

Definitions

  1. The act of assailing.

    • Outward conjectures may bee drawne of his [Christ’s] neere approching, […] but the period of time, […] as vncertaine, as is the day, moneth, yeare of the theeues assailment vnto the housholder.
    • I opened it [the letter] not without feare and assailement of my senses, knowing that it must haue beene some serious occasion, which could moue her to write vnto me,

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA