besetment

Jane listened attentively, and promised to remember the warning, and guard against what she knew to be her greatest besetment.

From that time she steadily fought against her deadly sin, until its besetment lost all power over her.

He made every effort to shake off this new besetment, this fresh assault upon the tranquility he had attained.

For since he had come out of prison he was every day more subject to this besetment of recalling the past.

After a besetment of twenty-four days, Iberville succeeded in extricating his vessel from the ice and passed into the bay.