besiegement

From besiege +‎ -ment.

besiegement (countable and uncountable, plural besiegements)

1. The act of besieging.
2. The state of being besieged.
   • 1578, Arthur Golding, The Abridgement of the Historyes of Trogus Pompeius:

     ...Setting before their eies besiegement, hungar, and the arrogant enemy...

• “besiegement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.