besetting

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besetting

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From beset + -ing.

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of beset

noun besettings

The act of one who besets or attacks. I might also here tell you of the contests and battles that such are engaged in, wherein they find the besettings of Satan, above any other of the saints.

adjective more besetting · most besetting

Deeply rooted; persistent. The first thing to bear in mind (especially if we ourselves belong to the clerico-academic-scientific type, the officially and conventionally “correct” type, “the deadly respectable” type, for which to ignore others is a besetting temptation) is that nothing can be more stupid than to bar out phenom
Obsessive Neither were they connected with fear: he was conscious of no fear. Rather, they originated in a strange besetting desire to know what to do when the time came; a desire gigantically disproportionate to the few swift moments to which it referred; a wondering that was more like the wondering of some

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@misc{besetting_2026,
  title = {besetting},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/besetting},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}