"besetting" meaning in English

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        "present participle and gerund of beset"
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          "ref": "1689, John Bunyan, The Jerusalem-sinner saved, or, Good news for the vilest of men being a help for despairing souls, shewing that Jesus Christ would have mercy in the first place offered to the biggest sinners",
          "text": "I might also here tell you of the contests and battles that such are engaged in, wherein they find the besettings of Satan, above any other of the saints.",
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        "The act of one who besets or attacks."
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          "ref": "1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XIII [Uniform ed., p. 144]",
          "text": "Rickie would not push himself. It was his besetting sin."
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          "ref": "1942, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 8, in The Moon and Sixpence",
          "text": "I did not then know the besetting sin of woman, the passion to discuss her private affairs with anyone who is willing to listen.",
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        "Deeply rooted; persistent."
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