Definition of Besetting

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Definition of Besetting
	Besetting of Beset Habitually attacking, harassing, or pressing upon or about; as, a besetting sin. Related Definitions: About, As, Attacking, Beset, Besetting, Harassing, Of, Or, Pressing, Sin, Upon

Besetting Quotations

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.
Fredrik Bajer

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
James F. Cooper

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
James F. Cooper

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