besiegement
English
Etymology
besiege + -ment
Noun
besiegement (countable and uncountable, plural besiegements)
- The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged.
- 1578, Arthur Golding, The Abridgement of the Historyes of Trogus Pompeius:
- Setting before their eies besiegement, hungar, and the arrogant enemy.
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References
- besiegement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913