encountering
English edit
Verb edit
encountering
- present participle and gerund of encounter
Noun edit
encountering (plural encounterings)
- An encounter; a meeting.
- 2010, Hans Rainer Sepp, Lester E. Embree, Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics, page 218:
- This is still a species of reflection because it thematizes encounterings and things-as-encountered, even if they do not occur in the mental life of the person reflectively observing them.
Adjective edit
encountering (comparative more encountering, superlative most encountering)
- (obsolete) Fit for an encounter or battle.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:
- Let vs put on our meet incountering mindes,
And in deteſting ſuch a diueliſh Thiefe,
In loue of honor and defence of right
Be arm’d againſt the hate of ſuch a foe,
Whether from earth, or hell, or heauen he grow.