"besiegement" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1578, Arthur Golding, The Abridgement of the Historyes of Trogus Pompeius",
          "text": "Setting before their eies besiegement, hungar, and the arrogant enemy.",
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        "The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged."
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