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confrontment|kənˈfrʌntmənt|
[f. confront v. + -ment.]
1. a. A coming or standing front to front, or facing; opposition.
1604Edmonds Observ. Cæsar's Comm. 14 Disdaining the confrontment of the enemie. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvi, The Duke..being not vsed to meete with any rubs or confrontments. 1887W. C. Russell Frozen Pirate I. xv. 247 This sudden confrontment threw me into such confusion that I could not speak.
†b. Affront. Obs. Cf. confront n. 2.
1635[Glapthorne] Lady Mother i. ii. in Bullen O. Pl. II. 115 The confrontment you have offred me in being dilatory.
†c. Face, aspect, of any figure. Obs.
1604Edmonds Observ. Cæsar's Comm. 5 When it shall be found either circular, or of many confrontments.
2. The action of bringing face to face.
1618Declar. Demeanour Raleigh 63 Their iudgement must be founded vpon examinations, reexaminations, and confrontments. 1876Stedman Victorian Poets 157 In youth feeling..responds divinely to every sensuous confrontment with the presence of beauty. |