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verb

Confront v. t. (past & past part. confronted; pres. part. confronting)

To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. "We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit." "He spoke and then confronts the bull." "Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew her forcibly into her arms, confronting the old Puritan magistrate with almost a fierce expression." "It was impossible at once to confront the might of France and to trample on the liberties of England."

To put face to face; to cause to face or to meet; as, to confront one with the proofs of his wrong doing.

To set in opposition for examination; to put in contrast; to compare. "When I confront a medal with a verse, I only show you the same design executed by different hands."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... birthplace, the old gambrel-roofed house,—the place where it stood, rather,—would be that mighty, awe-inspiring river. I do not suppose we shall ever know half of what we owe to the wise and wonderful people who confront us with the overpowering monuments of a past which flows out of the unfathomable darkness as the great river streams from sources even as ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... had not been called upon before to confront, he found now entangled with the mysterious line which divided a circus from a menagerie. Those itinerant tent-shows had never come his way heretofore, and he knew nothing of that fine balancing proportion ...

— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic

... thought what a help such an Anglican would have been to him in happier circumstances. It was not so much his anxiety to get on with his work that made him go up to it immediately the worshipers began to take their leave: it was that he dared not, in this holy spot, confront the woman who was beginning to influence him in such an indescribable manner. Those three enormous reasons why he must not attempt intimate acquaintance with Sue Bridehead, now that his interest in her had shown itself to be unmistakably ...

— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy

... fully alive to the gravity of the problems which confront them in attempting to assimilate a body of people, as courageous, as sturdily independent, and as tenacious of their traditional independence as these Tyrolean mountaineers—descendants of those peasants, remember, who, led by Andreas Hofer, successfully defied the ...

— The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the AEgean • Edward Alexander Powell

... We confront a condition of grave peril to industrial interests as well as to our national well-being when, in addition to the overcoming of racial background, we must add the retarding effect of the segregation of large foreign colonies in ...

— Home Missions In Action • Edith H. Allen

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