confrontal

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confrontal

noun confrontals

  1. countable, uncountable The act of confronting. 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.

    Similar: confrontation

adjective more confrontal · most confrontal

  1. That confronts. I have been in many of these overly structured and disciplined schools. I have noticed that in these schools of confrontal teaching, teachers and children seemed to be caught in a common grimness.

    Similar: confrontational, confrontative

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@misc{confrontal_2026,
  title = {confrontal},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/confrontal},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}