All 4 Uses of
confront
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- Then he jumped, landed unhurt, and his sense of responsibility left him until confronted by the Radley Place.
p. 17..7confronted = challenged (having come to face)
- Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.
p. 162..2confronted = faced
- Mr. Ewell backed up into the witness chair, settled himself, and regarded Atticus with haughty suspicion, an expression common to Maycomb County witnesses when confronted by opposing counsel.
p. 234..6 *confronted = faced or challenged
- It was plain that he had never been confronted with a problem of this kind.
p. 240..6
Definition:
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(confront) to deal directly with an unpleasant situation or person
or:
to challenge someone -- often by presenting evidence