The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assailment
Assailment \As*sail"ment\, n. The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. [R.]
His most frequent assailment was the headache.
--Johnson.
Wiktionary
assailment
n. (context rare English) An assault; an attack.
Usage examples of "assailment".
There was an unremitting struggle with deadly or pestiferous bacteria new to science, a perpetual assailment by dangerous radiations of soil, and air and sun.