confrontal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confrontals
Etymology: From confront + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Traces of Caledonian intrenchments and hill-forts occur so numerously for miles in the neighbourhood, and in such positions of confrontal to Ardoch, as to indicate that the Roman forces made a stiff and prolonged lodgment here, and met a vigorous resistance.
ref: 1860, John M[arius] Wilson, “Greenloaning”, in Nelsons’ Hand-Book to Scotland: For Tourists. […], London; Edinburgh; New York, N.Y.: T[homas] Nelson and Sons, […], page 326, column 1:
text: The overpowering sense of the sublime, of awful desolation, of transcending marvelousness and unexpectedness, that swept over us, as we reined our horses sharply out of green forests, and stood upon high jutting rock that overlooked this rolling, upheaving sea of granite mountains, holding far down its rough lap this vale of beauty of meadow and grove 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, as in great danger, in solemn, sudden death.
ref: 1865 August 11, Samuel Bowles, “Letter XXII. The Yosemite Valley and the Big Trees.”, in Across the Continent: A Summer’s Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax, Springfield, Mass.: Samuel Bowles & Company; New York, N.Y.: Hurd & Houghton, page 223:
text: Then the door of the elevator opened and a woman got out whom Marcy immediately recognised. In that moment of confrontal Marcy felt a strange sensation of guilt, as if she had stolen something and was being caught.
ref: 1919, Daniel Carson Goodman, chapter XXV, in The Taker, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, page 218:
text: By the constant encounters and confrontals of these Tests of the Golden Keys he is continuously “tried in the Fire” of the Ek-Klesia, which “proves every man’s Action, of what sort it is”; […]
ref: [1921], Holden Edward Sampson, “Lesson Ten: (4) Election, or the State of the Supplicant (continued); (4) ‘The Land of Canaan’ (continued)”, in Theou Sophia: Series Three. In Two Parts; Analytical Lessons in the Wisdom of the Divine Mysteries; Part One: Graduation; The Tests of the Golden Keys, volume 3, London: William Rider & Son, Limited […]; The Ek-Klesia Press […], →OCLC, page 335:
text: All social defenses are stripped away and the veritable soul of man stands forth, unashamed of its nakedness and unembarrassed for its deformities. Elemental forces are everywhere released. Everywhere they hint at poignant confrontals, so the night wind in the forest becomes an illuminating test of character and conduct.
ref: 1924, Charles B[ert] Reed, “Survivals”, in Four Way Lodge, Chicago, Ill.: Pascal Covici, page 170:
text: The Americans had proved themselves so eminently battleworthy in their first confrontals with the hard-pressing Germans that [Ferdinand] Foch wanted an American regiment attached to each French division as a stiffening element.
ref: 1961, Richard O’Connor, “Cantigny . . . Belleau Wood . . . Soissons”, in Black Jack Pershing: A Candid Biography of the United States’ Only Six-Star General since George Washington, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, part two (Soldier on the Western Front), page 265:
text: The large stone symbolizes the act of confrontal, and the small stones the act of being pursued.
ref: 1964, Katsuo Saito, Sadaji Wada, translated by Richard L[ee] Gage, “Spiritual Symbolism”, in Magic of Trees and Stones: Secrets of Japanese Gardening, New York, N.Y.; Tokyo: The JPT [Japan Publications Trading] Book Company, →LCCN, section 1 (The General Garden), subsection 2 (The Inner Garden), subsubsection 3 (Stone Arrangements), page 88:
text: Much of the chaos and indecision which marked the policies and activities of Sun Hill were, I think, due to an instinctive caution (of the members) in avoiding open confrontals with each other on key issues for fear that such confrontations would erupt into unbridgeable schisms and leave the mutual good-will of the Commune in shreds. And so, although on the surface Sun Hill’s members were pledged to constant and deep confrontals with each other, some more subconscious instinct for group survival bade us tread more softly in our dealings with each other, for it was not long, in Sun Hill’s history, before it became evident that the word “Community” is an enormously wide one, and that our various opinions on what is should mean needed every bit of that width to accommodate them.
ref: 1973, Gordon Yaswen, “Sunrise Hill Community: Post Mortem”, in Rosabeth Moss Kanter, compiler, Communes: Creating and Managing the Collective Life, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, section IV (Crises and Pressures for Change), subsection “Why They Dissolve—Problems of Short-Lived Communes”, page 468:
text: We moved from Hesston College where Christian youth came charging in from all over the world and all kinds of Christian programs and confrontals were daily menu, out to a setting where the Christian church and Christian fellowship are a little hard to come by.
ref: 1977 January 25, Evan Oswald, “Readers Say”, in Daniel Hertzler, David E. Hostetler, editors, Gospel Herald, volume 70, number 4, Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Publishing House, page 85, column 1:
text: The memory of Meung, intimately associated with suffering and humiliation, leads through penitence to the confrontal of a wasted youth, eventually to a contemplation of the brevity of life, and finally to an awareness of the omnipotent destructive force of death.
ref: 1984, David A. Fein, “The Prelude (Verses 1-224)”, in A Reading of Villon’s Testament, Birmingham, Ala.: Summa Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 8:
text: So no gun. I wanted clear confrontals, encounters of the closest kind, me and whoever, no bystanders or witnesses—just me and him, no boom. / Confrontals. I meant confrontations. But confrontals, I like it. Shorter and suddener.
ref: 1989, Robert Twohy, “At a Rest Stop South of Portland”, in Cynthia Manson, editor, Blood, Threat & Fears: Thirty-Three Great Tales of Psychological Suspense, New York, N.Y.: Barnes & Noble Books, published 1993, →ISBN, page 55:
text: She acts as a Druidess throughout this scene of confrontal with the narrator, with the same magisterial authority and special powers that the Druid held in the Celtic society.
ref: 2005, Christine Gallant, “Privileging the Celtic”, in Keats and Romantic Celticism, Basingstoke, Hants.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 129–130:
synonyms: confrontation
glosses: The act of confronting.