Definition of Confrontal

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Confrontal

confoundest
confoundeth
confounding
confounding factor
confounding variable
confoundingly
confounds
confraternal
confraternities
confraternity
confraternization
confraters
confrere
confreres
confront
confrontal (current term)
confrontals
confrontation
confrontation method
confrontational
confrontationally
confrontationism
confrontationist
confrontationists
confrontations
confrontative
confronted
confronter
confronters
confronting

Literary usage of Confrontal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our New West: Records of Travel Between the Mississippi River and the by Samuel Bowles (1869)
"... 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, ..."

2. Marvels of the New West: A Vivid Portrayal of the Stupendous Marvels in the by William Makepeace Thayer (1887)
"... 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, ..."

3. The Chief End of Man by George Spring Merriam (1897)
"In that last extremity — that confrontal of the soul by the bitterest choice, and its acceptance of death rather than wrong-doing — comes the sudden voice ..."

4. Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons by Samuel Bowles (1865)
"It was the confrontal of God face to face, as in great danger, in solemn, sudden death. It was Niagara, magnified. All that was mortal shrank back, ..."

5. The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War by John Fiske (1900)
"The wide dispersion of the Federal forces, and their confrontal of him at so many points, perplexed him, instead of being a source of congratulation that ..."

6. The Autobiography of Martin Van Buren by Martin Van Buren (1920)
"... but soon perceived that the return he had received for all his sacrifices of old friendships and his unhesitating confrontal of enemies in the formation ..."

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