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/ɹɛnˈkaʊntə/ · verb
(archaic, transitive) To meet, encounter, come into contact with..
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.
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.
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.
Use rencounter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Rencounter means (archaic, transitive) To meet, encounter, come into contact with..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Tho, whenas still he saw him towards pace, He gan rencounter him in equall race
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