Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a besieging manner.
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- adverb in a
besieging manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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Service, even at a peripheral table, was almost besiegingly attentive, although the era of all-male French waitstaffs with thick accents in a New York restaurant is passé.
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On these accounts it is that I find it impossible to banish the thought of death when I am walking alone in the endless days of summer; and any particular death, if not more affecting, at least haunts my mind more obstinately and besiegingly in that season.
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But the voice continued to haunt him persistently, besiegingly, despotically.
The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892
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On these accounts it is that I find it impossible to banish the thought of death when I am walking alone in the endless days of summer; and any particular death, if not actually more affecting, at least haunts my mind more obstinately and besiegingly in that season.
The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III Various 1885
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On these accounts it is that I find it impossible to banish the thought of death when I am walking alone in the endless days of summer; and any particular death, if not more affecting, at least haunts my mind more obstinately and besiegingly in that season.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey 1822
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