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Assault vs Rencounter - What's the difference?

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Assault is a related term of rencounter.


As nouns the difference between assault and rencounter

is that assault is a violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town while rencounter is (archaic) an encounter between opposing forces; a conflict.

As verbs the difference between assault and rencounter

is that assault is to attack, threaten or harass while rencounter is (archaic|transitive) to meet, encounter, come into contact with.

assault

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town.
  • * Prescott
    • The Spanish general prepared to renew the assault .
  • * Shakespeare
    • Unshaken bears the assault / Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest.
  • A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government.
  • (criminal, legal) An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence, to do hurt to another, but without necessarily touching his person, as by lifting a fist in a threatening manner, or by striking at him and missing him.
  • (singulare tantum, legal) The crime whose action is such an attempt.
  • An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm.
  • (singulare tantum, legal) The tort whose action is such an act.
  • (fencing) A non-competitive combat between two fencers.

    • Synonyms

    *

    Derived terms

    * antiassault * assault and battery * nonassault * reassault

    Coordinate terms

    * battery

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To attack, threaten or harass.

    • rencounter

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To meet, encounter, come into contact with.
  • To attack hand to hand.
    • (Spenser)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) An encounter between opposing forces; a conflict.
  • (archaic) An encounter or chance meeting.
  • :* 1819': 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 . — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe