"assailment" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1595, Henoch Clapham, Sommons to Doomes Daie, Edinburgh: Robert Waldegrave, pages 41–42:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "I opened it [the letter] not without feare and assailement of my senses, knowing that it must haue beene some serious occasion, which could moue her to write vnto me,",
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          "ref": "1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 16, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 207:",
          "text": "Thus, Martin learned in the five minutes’ straggling talk about the stove, that to carry pistols into legislative assemblies, and swords in sticks, and other such peaceful toys; to seize opponents by the throat, as dogs or rats might do; to bluster, bully, and overbear by personal assailment; were glowing deeds.",
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          "ref": "1887, Marie Corelli, chapter 16, in Thelma,, volume 2, London: Richard Bentley, page 40:",
          "text": "[…] seeing her extraordinary beauty, and forestalling the dangers and temptations into which the possession of such exceptional charms might lead her, she adopted a wise preventive course, that cased her as it were in armour, proof against all the assailments of flattery.",
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          "ref": "2018, Anna Burns, Milkman, London: Faber & Faber, Part 3:",
          "text": "Meanwhile, during all this puzzlement, those unpleasant waves, biological ripple upon nasty ripple, kept up assailment on my legs and backbone.",
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        "(now rare) The act of assailing."
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