Confront vs Triumph - What's the difference?
confront | triumph |
To stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with; to oppose; to challenge.
To deal with.
To something bring face to face with.
To come up against; to encounter.
To engage in confrontation.
To set a thing side by side with; to compare.
To put a thing facing to; to set in contrast to.
A conclusive success following an effort, conflict, or confrontation of obstacles; victory; conquest.
A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a victor.
(obsolete) Any triumphal procession; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant.
* Shakespeare
A state of joy or exultation at success.
* Milton
* Dryden
(obsolete) A trump card.
A card game, also called trump.
(historical, Ancient Rome) a ceremony held to publicly celebrate and sanctify the military achievement of an army commander.
A work of art, cuisine, etc. of very high quality.
To celebrate victory with pomp; to rejoice over success; to exult in an advantage gained; to exhibit exultation.
* Bible, Psalms xciv. 3
* Shakespeare
To prevail over rivals, challenges, or difficulties.
To succeed, win, or attain ascendancy.
* Macaulay
To be prosperous; to flourish.
* Trumbull
To play a trump in a card game.
As a verb confront
is to stand or meet facing, especially in competition, hostility or defiance; to come face to face with; to oppose; to challenge.As a noun triumph is
triumph.confront
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Verb
(en verb)- We should confront him about the missing money.
Derived terms
* confrontation * confrontational * confronter * confrontmenttriumph
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) triumphe , from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- the triumph of knowledge
- Our daughter, / In honour of whose birth these triumphs are, / Sits here, like beauty's child.
- Great triumph and rejoicing was in heaven.
- Hercules from Spain / Arrived in triumph , from Geryon slain.
- Scorsese's latest film is a triumph .
- This wedding cake is a triumph .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- How long shall the wicked triumph ?
- Sorrow on thee and all the pack of you / That triumph thus upon my misery!
- On this occasion, however, genius triumphed.
- where commerce triumphed on the favouring gales
- (Ben Jonson)