Assailment

Quick meaning: Assailment is a noun meaning (now rare) The act of assailing.

Meaning

(now rare) The act of assailing.

Example Sentences

Meanwhile, during all this puzzlement, those unpleasant waves, biological ripple upon nasty ripple, kept up assailment on my legs and backbone.

I opened it [the letter] not without feare and assailement of my senses, knowing that it must haue beene some serious occasion, which could moue her to write vnto me,

Outward conjectures may bee drawne of his [Christ’s] neere approching, […] but the period of time, […] as vncertaine, as is the day, moneth, yeare of the theeues assailment vnto the housholder.

[…] seeing her extraordinary beauty, and forestalling the dangers and temptations into which the possession of such exceptional charms might lead her, she adopted a wise preventive course, that cased her as it were in armour, proof against all the assailments of flattery.

Word Forms

• assailments

Synonyms for assailment

Depending on context, synonyms include assault, attack.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sault, offension, accusement, atteint, affront, assiege.

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