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confrontation
English
Etymology
From Middle French.Morphologically confront +? -ation
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?nf??n?te???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
confrontation (countable and uncountable, plural confrontations)
- The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.
- A conflict between armed forces.
Derived terms
- confrontational
Related terms
- confront
Translations
Further reading
- confrontation at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.f???.ta.sj??/
Noun
confrontation f (plural confrontations)
- confrontation
Related terms
- confronter
Further reading
- “confrontation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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tryst
English
Etymology
From Middle English tryst, trist, from Old French tristre (“waiting place, appointed station in hunting”), probably from a North Germanic source such as Old Norse treysta (“to make safe, secure”), from traust (“confidence, trust, security, help, shelter, safe abode”), from Proto-Germanic *traust? (“trust, shelter”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *dreu-, *dr?- (“to be firm, be solid”). Doublet of trust (which see).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??st/, /t?a?st/
- Rhymes: -?st, -a?st
Noun
tryst (plural trysts)
- A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien
- The tenderest-hearted maid / That ever bided tryst at village stile.
- 2005, Julian Baggini, The Pig that Wants to be Eaten: And 99 other thought experiments, ?91: “No one gets hurt”, page 271 (Granta; ?ISBN, 9781862078550)
- If someone trusts you, what is lost if you betray that trust? As Scarlett is tempted to see it, sometimes nothing at all. If her husband remains ignorant of her tryst, then his trust in her will remain intact. ‘No one gets hurt’ runs her reasoning, so why not go ahead?
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien
- (obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant.
Translations
Verb
tryst (third-person singular simple present trysts, present participle trysting, simple past and past participle trysted)
- (intransitive) To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
- (transitive) To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
- (intransitive) To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.
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