[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That confronts: † a. Bordering, adjoining (obs.).
b. Standing face to face, meeting in opposition.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, I. x. § 3. The confronting and next people of all other vnto it.
1710. E. Ward, Brit. Hudibras, 115. Large Confronting Bumpers pass.
1798. Hucks, Poems, 178 Ev’n now confronting armies meet.
