Meaning

The act of confronting..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act of confronting.
2. That confronts.

Example Sentences

Traces of Caledonian intrenchments and hill-forts occur so numerously for miles in the neighbourhood, and in such positions of confrontal to Ardoch, as to indicate that the Roman forces made a stiff and prolonged lodgment here, and met a vigorous resistance.

The overpowering sense of the sublime, of awful desolation, of transcending marvelousness and unexpectedness, that swept over us, as we reined our horses sharply out of green forests, and stood upon high jutting rock that overlooked this rolling, upheaving sea of granite mountains, holding far down its rough lap this vale of beauty of meadow and grove and river,—such tide of feeling, such stoppage of ordinary emotions comes at rare intervals in any life. It was the confrontal of God face to face, as in great danger, in solemn, sudden death.

Then the door of the elevator opened and a woman got out whom Marcy immediately recognised. In that moment of confrontal Marcy felt a strange sensation of guilt, as if she had stolen something and was being caught.

By the constant encounters and confrontals of these Tests of the Golden Keys he is continuously “tried in the Fire” of the Ek-Klesia, which “proves every man’s Action, of what sort it is”; […]

All social defenses are stripped away and the veritable soul of man stands forth, unashamed of its nakedness and unembarrassed for its deformities. Elemental forces are everywhere released. Everywhere they hint at poignant confrontals, so the night wind in the forest becomes an illuminating test of character and conduct.

The Americans had proved themselves so eminently battleworthy in their first confrontals with the hard-pressing Germans that [Ferdinand] Foch wanted an American regiment attached to each French division as a stiffening element.

The large stone symbolizes the act of confrontal, and the small stones the act of being pursued.

Much of the chaos and indecision which marked the policies and activities of Sun Hill were, I think, due to an instinctive caution (of the members) in avoiding open confrontals with each other on key issues for fear that such confrontations would erupt into unbridgeable schisms and leave the mutual good-will of the Commune in shreds. And so, although on the surface Sun Hill’s members were pledged to constant and deep confrontals with each other, some more subconscious instinct for group survival bade us tread more softly in our dealings with each other, for it was not long, in Sun Hill’s history, before it became evident that the word “Community” is an enormously wide one, and that our various opinions on what is should mean needed every bit of that width to accommodate them.

Word Forms

• confrontals
• more confrontal
• most confrontal

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