All 6 Uses of
confront
in
Great Expectations
- I had known him the moment I saw him looking over the settle, and now that I stood confronting him with his hand upon my shoulder, I checked off again in detail his large head, his dark complexion, his deep-set eyes, his bushy black eyebrows, his large watch-chain, his strong black dots of beard and whisker, and even the smell of scented soap on his great hand.†
Chpt 18
- I started much more naturally then, to find myself confronted by a man in a sober gray dress.†
Chpt 29 *
- I always thought this was business, this was the way to confront the thing, this was the way to take the foe by the throat.†
Chpt 34
- "You was a saying," he observed, when we had confronted one another in silence, "that surely I must understand.†
Chpt 39
- When it came upon him, he confronted it, but it must come before he troubled himself.†
Chpt 54
- The sheriffs with their great chains and nosegays, other civic gewgaws and monsters, criers, ushers, a great gallery full of people,—a large theatrical audience,—looked on, as the two-and-thirty and the Judge were solemnly confronted.†
Chpt 56
Definition:
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(confront) to deal directly with an unpleasant situation or person
or:
to challenge someone -- often by presenting evidence