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BESETMENT

Definition: BESETMENT

BESETMENT

Noun

1. The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Commercial Usage: BESETMENT

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Besetment of Kurt Lieders [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BESETMENT

Language Translations for "BESETMENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏تطوق, ‏إحاطة (framing, surround, surrounding). (various references)

   

French

  

encerclement, dérange, colère. (various references)

   

German

  

Verfolgung (chase, chastisement, following, persecution, proceedings, prosecution, pursuance, pursuit, tracking, trailing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

esetmentbay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: BESETMENT

Derivations

Words beginning with "BESETMENT": besetments. (additional references)


Misspellings

"BESETMENT" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bedeuten, besotment, bustamente. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "BESETMENT"

Words rhyming with "BESETMENT" (pronounced 'Be*set"ment'): Abasement, Abashment, Abatement, Abetment, Abjurement, Abodement, Aborsement, Abortment, Abridgment, Absentment, Abutment, Accordment, Accouchement, Accroachment, Accrument, Accusement, Acquirement, Acquitment, Adjournment, Adjudgment, Adjustment, Adorement, Adornment, Advancement, Advisement, Affeerment, Afforcement, Affordment, Affrayment, Affreightment, Affrightment, Aggroupment, Agistment, Agreement, Agroupment, Ailment, Alignment, Alinement, Allayment, Allegement, Allignment, Allotment, Allurement, Amassment, Amazement, Amendment, Amercement, Amusement, Annexment, Announcement. (additional references)

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Anagrams: BESETMENT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-m-n-s-t-t"

-3 letters: beseem, esteem, mestee, settee, tenets, testee.

-4 letters: beets, benes, bents, beset, meets, mense, mesne, metes, neems, netts, semen, sente, teems, teens, tenet, tense, tents.

-5 letters: been, bees, beet, bene, bens, bent, best, bets, emes, meet, mete, nebs, neem, nest, nets, nett, seem, seen, seme, sene, sent, sett, stem, stet, teem, teen, tees, tens.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-e-m-n-s-t-t"
 

+1 letter: besetments.

 

+2 letters: betterments, debatements.

 

+3 letters: betweentimes.

 

+4 letters: belittlements, embattlements, embitterments.

 

+5 letters: embrittlements.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BESETMENT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 45 53 45 54 4D 45 4E 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .    ...    .    -    --    .    -.    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000101 01010011 01000101 01010100 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#83 &#69 &#84 &#77 &#69 &#78 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 0053 0045 0054 004D 0045 004E 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

363953395447394854

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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