besiegement

English

Etymology

From besiege +‎ -ment.

Noun

besiegement (countable and uncountable, plural besiegements)

1. The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged.
   • 1578, Arthur Golding, The Abridgement of the Historyes of Trogus Pompeius:

     Setting before their eies besiegement, hungar, and the arrogant enemy.

References

• “besiegement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.