assailment

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assailment

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From assail + -ment.

noun assailments

archaic, countable, uncountable 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.
Similar: assault, attack

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noun act of assailing

Deutsch	Angriff, Überfall

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@misc{assailment_2026,
  title = {assailment},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/assailment},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}