"assailment" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: assailments [plural]
Etymology: From assail + -ment. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|assail|ment}} assail + -ment Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} assailment (countable and uncountable, plural assailments)
  1. (now rare) The act of assailing. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable Synonyms: assault, attack

Inflected forms

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          "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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