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confronter|kənˈfrʌntə(r)|
Also 6 com-.
[f. confront v. + -er.]
One who confronts. (In quot. 1599 said of a country: see confront v. 1.)
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe 31 Lippitudo Atticæ (as it was saide of ægina her neere comfronter). 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. xxv. 116 [Bassianus] could not endure an equall (much lesse a confronter) in authority. 1616ed. Marlowe's Faust. Wks. (Rtldg.) 119/1 This Pope, This proud confronter of the Emperor. |