Rencounter

Quick meaning: Rencounter is a verb meaning (archaic, transitive) To meet, encounter, come into contact with.

Meaning

(archaic, transitive) To meet, encounter, come into contact with.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) To attack hand to hand.
2. (archaic) An encounter between opposing forces; a conflict.
3. (archaic) An encounter or chance meeting.

Example Sentences

Tho, whenas still he saw him towards pace, He gan rencounter him in equall race

Mr Nightingale promised to enquire into the state of Mr Fitzpatrick's wound, and likewise to find out some of the persons who were present at the rencounter.

The Prior at length […] rode off with considerably less pomp, and in a much more apostolical condition, so far as worldly matters were concerned, than he had exhibited before this rencounter.

He had some advantage in the difference of our weapons; for his sword, as I recollect, was longer than mine, […] His obvious malignity of purpose never for a moment threw him off his guard, and he exhausted every feint and strategem proper to the science of defence; while, at the same time, he mediated the most desperate catastrophe to our rencounter.

Word Forms

• rencounters
• rencountering
• rencountered
• rencontre

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Related dictionary entries include counter, encounter, confront, come on, meet, know.

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