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What (who) is Beset - definition

EGYPTIAN DEITY
Beset; Besas; Bès
  • Egyptian composite capital with a Bes capital above it, in the [[Dendera Temple complex]] (Egypt)

beset         
adj. (cannot stand alone) beset by, with (beset by doubts)
beset         
¦ verb (besets, besetting, beset)
1. trouble or harass persistently.
surround or attack from all sides.
2. (be beset with) archaic be covered or studded with.
Origin
OE besettan, from be- + settan (see set1).
beset         
(besets, besetting)
Note: The form 'beset' is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle.
If someone or something is beset by problems or fears, they have many problems or fears which affect them severely.
The country is beset by severe economic problems.
...the problems now besetting the country.
VERB: be V-ed by/with n, V n

Wikipedia

Bes

Bes (; also spelled as Bisu, Coptic: Ⲃⲏⲥ), together with his feminine counterpart Beset, is an ancient Egyptian deity worshipped as a protector of households and, in particular, of mothers, children, and childbirth. Bes later came to be regarded as the defender of everything good and the enemy of all that is bad. According to Donald Mackenzie in 1907, Bes may have been a Middle Kingdom import from Nubia or Somalia, and his cult did not become widespread until the beginning of the New Kingdom, but more recently several Bes-like figurines have been found in deposits from the Naqada period of pre-dynastic Egypt, like the thirteen figurines found at Tell el-Farkha

Worship of Bes spread as far north as the area of Syria and as far west as the Balearic Islands (Ibiza) in Spain, and later into the Roman and Achaemenid Empires.

Examples of use of Beset
1. Police were strained, beset by suicides and desertion.
2. Iran‘s struggling economy is beset by soaring inflation and unemployment.
3. Hillary Rodham Clinton‘s campaign have been beset by lingering tensions.
4. The city is frequently beset by explosions and riots.
5. Nor are we beset only with trivial, purchasing options.