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assailments

assailments is the plural of assailment.

Meaning of assailment

Noun

assailment (countable and uncountable, plural assailments)

  1. (archaic) 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
    Synonyms:
    assault, attack

Questions about assailments

What is assailments the plural of?
Assailments is the plural of assailment.

Words near assailments in the dictionary

  1. assailes
  2. assailest
  3. assaileth
  4. assailing
  5. assailment
  6. assailments
  7. assails
  8. assain
  9. assained
  10. assaining
  11. assains

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