Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of confronting; a placing face to face for comparison.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of confronting; the state of being face to face.
- noun The act of confronting; the state of being face to face.
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- noun
Confrontation .
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Examples
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But now is self's confrontment with loneliness, with sorrow, with despair.
A Tar-Heel Baron Edward Stratton Holloway 1903
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This sudden confrontment threw me into such confusion that I could not speak.
The Frozen Pirate 1877
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I had not thought to find the faculties of Salamon Sweers so quickly benumbed by what was indeed a wild and dangerous confrontment, yet not so formidable and hopeless as to weaken the nerves of a seaman.
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These ladies, who had taken la Pigoreau in their coach to all the hearings, prompted her, in order to procrastinate, to file a fresh petition, in which she demanded the confrontment of all the witnesses to the pregnancy, and the confinement.
Celebrated Crimes (Complete) Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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August 1658 a decree ordering the confrontment, but on condition that for three days previously la Pigoreau should deliver herself a prisoner in the Conciergerie.
Celebrated Crimes (Complete) Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836
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