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confronté

See also: confronte

English

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Etymology

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From French confronté (“confronted”), past participle of confronter (“to confront”).[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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confronté (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry, of two animals)[1] Face-to-face; facing each other; fornenst.[1][2][3]
    Synonym: (but this also has another meaning) affronté

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 “‖confronté, a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
  2. ^ Burke’s Peerage and Gentry, A-to-Z Guide to Heraldic Terms — C
  3. ^ Universal Technological Dictionary by George Crabb (1823)
      Facing one another, or full-faced

French

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Participle

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confronté (feminine confrontée, masculine plural confrontés, feminine plural confrontées)

  1. past participle of confronter

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Spanish

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Verb

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confronté

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of confrontar
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