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rencounters

rencounters is the plural of rencounter.

rencounters is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rencounter.

Meaning of rencounter

Noun

rencounter (plural rencounters)

  1. (archaic) An encounter between opposing forces; a conflict.
    • 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.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC
  2. (archaic) An encounter or chance meeting.
    • 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.1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co....

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Rencounters is the plural of rencounter.

Words near rencounters in the dictionary

  1. rencontres
  2. rencontring
  3. rencounter
  4. rencountered
  5. rencountering
  6. rencounters
  7. rend
  8. rend one's garments
  9. Renda
  10. rendaku
  11. Rendall

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