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.

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

Jane listened attentively, and promised to remember the warning, and guard against what she knew to be her greatest besetment.

From For John's Sake and Other Stories. by Perram, Annie Frances

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)

Alston had a vague uncomfortable besetment that his mother would have had a warmer hope for him if he had been tempted of demons, tortured by doubts.

From The Prisoner by Brown, Alice