Combat vs Rencounter - What's the difference?

Combat is a related term of rencounter.

As nouns the difference between combat and rencounter

is that combat is a battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory while rencounter is (archaic) an encounter between opposing forces; a conflict.

As verbs the difference between combat and rencounter

is that combat is to fight with; to struggle for victory against while rencounter is (archaic|transitive) to meet, encounter, come into contact with.

combat

English

(wikipedia combat)

Noun

A battle, a fight (often one in which weapons are used); a struggle for victory.

*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat : "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."

*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter

, volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , passage=Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat .}}

Derived terms

* combat pay

Verb

To fight with; to struggle for victory against.

* Milton

To combat with a blind man I disdain.

Anagrams

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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