The act or process of confronting someone or something; a direct challenge or meeting face-to-face.
From confront + -ment (a suffix that turns verbs into nouns). The -ment suffix comes from Latin -mentum, meaning the result or product of an action.
This word is the action-noun form of confront—it's not commonly used today, but it shows how English speakers in the 17th-18th centuries tried to name the experience of facing down conflict directly.
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