besetting

Speech parts

1. besetting - Noun

2. besetting - Adjective

3. besetting - Verb

Derived from beset

Meaning

of Beset

Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin.

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Examples

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour. Alfred North Whitehead

The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it. Saddam Hussein

I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's simply human. Do we all tend toward a single besetting sin? Karen Joy Fowler

You ask a lot of questions, don't you?" "My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin. Cassandra Clare

We all know that the besetting danger of Churches is formalism; the besetting danger of State action, of corporate action, is officialism and mechanism; and we all know that it is a drawback to many modern ideals that they rest upon materialism and a soulless secularism. John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn

An awareness of our smallness may help to redeem us from the arrogance which is the besetting sin of the scientists. Freeman Dyson

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