rencounter
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Is rencounter a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (archaic, transitive) To meet, encounter, come into contact with.archaictransitive
2. (obsolete) To attack hand to hand.Examples: "Tho, whenas still he saw him towards pace, He gan rencounter him in equall race"obsolete
noun (English)
1. (archaic) An encounter between opposing forces; a conflict.Examples: "Mr Nightingale promised to enquire into the state of Mr Fitzpatrick's wound, and likewise to find out some of the persons who were present at the rencounter."; "He had some advantage in the difference of our weapons; for his sword, as I recollect, was longer than mine, […] His obvious malignity of purpose never for a moment threw him off his guard, and he exhausted every feint and strategem proper to the science of defence; while, at the same time, he mediated the most desperate catastrophe to our rencounter."archaic
2. (archaic) An encounter or chance meeting.Examples: "The Prior at length […] rode off with considerably less pomp, and in a much more apostolical condition, so far as worldly matters were concerned, than he had exhibited before this rencounter."archaic
Definition source: Wiktionary