assailment
assailment noun: the act of assailing.
Noun
assailment (countable and uncountable, plural assailments)
- The act of assailing.
- 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.1595, Henoch Clapham, Sommons to Doomes Daie, Edinburgh: Robert Waldegrave, pages 41–42
- 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,1612, Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant, Don-Quixote of the Mancha, Part 3, Chapter 13, pp. 269-270
assailment meaning in Tamil
assailment in Tamil
- தாக்குதல்
Synonyms of assailment
Forms of assailment
| plural | assailments |
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Origin of assailment
From assail + -ment.
Questions about assailment
- What does assailment mean?
- Assailment means the act of assailing.
- What is assailment in Tamil?
- Assailment in Tamil is தாக்குதல். See Assailment meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is assailment?
- Assailment is a noun.
- What is the plural of assailment?
- The plural of assailment is assailments.
Words near assailment in the dictionary
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