Assailment
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of assailing. archaic, countable, uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From assail + -ment.
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