单词 | confronter |
释义 | confrontern. One who confronts. (In quot. 1599 said of a country: see confront v. 1.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > confronting > one who confrontera1593 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun] > neighbouring land confrontera1593 a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1616) sig. D2v This Pope: This proud confronter of the Emperour. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 31 Lippitudo Atticæ (as it was saide of Ægina her neere adiacent comfronter). 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xxiv. 232/1 [Bassianus] could not endure an equall (much lesse a confronter) in authority. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.a1593 |
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