besetment

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After a besetment of eight months and nine days, in which she drifted twelve hundred miles to the south, the yacht escaped, buffeted, racked, and leaking.

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

He made every effort to shake off this new besetment, this fresh assault upon the tranquility he had attained.

From The Hidden Places by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

So in one short week, two are gone out of my husband's class.—This morning I felt great power in prayer, and an ardent desire for full deliverance from every besetment.

From Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York by Lyth, John

I am determined to watch and pray until I obtain a triumph over this trying besetment.

From The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada by Hodgins, J. George (John George)

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 Brown, Alice