Besetting

Quick meaning: Besetting is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of beset.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of beset.

More Meanings

1. The act of one who besets or attacks.
2. Deeply rooted; persistent.
3. Obsessive

Example Sentences

Rickie would not push himself. It was his besetting sin.

I did not then know the besetting sin of woman, the passion to discuss her private affairs with anyone who is willing to listen.

I might also here tell you of the contests and battles that such are engaged in, wherein they find the besettings of Satan, above any other of the saints.

Neither were they connected with fear: he was conscious of no fear. Rather, they originated in a strange besetting desire to know what to do when the time came; a desire gigantically disproportionate to the few swift moments to which it referred; a wondering that was more like the wondering of some other spirit within his, than his own.

Word Forms

• besettings

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