Besetting

/bɪˈsɛtɪŋ/ adjective

Persistently present or troubling; constantly affecting or influencing someone.

From 'beset' + '-ing' (present participle/gerund suffix). The phrase 'besetting sin' became famous through Puritan religious literature, where it meant a sin that particularly afflicts an individual.

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