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English

Noun

  1. The state of being beset.
  2. :A common threat to icebreakers is besetment, where they are trapped in the ice and unable to ram the ice to escape.
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Besetment \Be*set"ment\, n.
The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that
which besets one, as a sin. "Fearing a besetment." --Kane.
[1913 Webster]
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