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Definition of Besets
1. beset [v] - See also: beset
Lexicographical Neighbors of Besets
Literary usage of Besets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Virgil by Virgil (1891)
"I know the cruel resentment of my subjects besets me round;" defend* me, I pray
you, from this outrage, and to a grave consign me in partnership with my son ..."
2. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, James Ivory (1828)
"... or at an unseasonable conjuncture, which may bring damage to the company,
besets his partners free from all their engagements to him, while he continues ..."
3. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign by James Wood (1893)
"Fallaría Alia aliam trudit —One falsehood 30 besets another (/it. thrusts aside
another). Ter. Fallacies we are apt to put upon ourselves by taking words ..."
4. Old Acquaintance: Barry Cornwall and Some of His Friends by James Thomas Fields (1876)
"... struggle against the lassitude which besets me, and strive in vain to be either
sensible or jocose. 1 had better say farewell." On Christmas day, 1854, ..."
5. The Science of Political Economy by Henry George (1897)
"CHAPTER II. CAUSES OF CONFUSION AS TO THE MEANING OF WEALTH. SHOWING THE REAL
DIFFICULTY THAT besets THE ECONOMIC DEFINITION OF WEALTH. ..."
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