Contest vs Rencounter - What's the difference?

Contest is a related term of rencounter.

As nouns the difference between contest and rencounter

is that contest is (uncountable) controversy; debate while rencounter is (archaic) an encounter between opposing forces; a conflict.

As verbs the difference between contest and rencounter

is that contest is to contend while rencounter is (archaic|transitive) to meet, encounter, come into contact with.

contest

English

Noun

(uncountable) Controversy; debate.

no contest

(uncountable) Struggle for superiority; combat.

(countable) A competition.

The child entered the spelling contest .

Synonyms

* (controversy) controversy, debate, discussion * (combat) battle, combat, fight * (competition) competition, pageant

Derived terms

(Terms derived from the noun "contest") * contest shape * fashion contest * no contest * pissing contest * popularity contest * wet t-shirt contest * will contest

Verb

(en verb)

To contend.

I will contest for the open seat on the board.

* Alexander Pope

Of man, who dares in pomp with Jove contest ?

* Bishop Burnet

The difficulty of an argument adds to the pleasure of contesting with it, when there are hopes of victory.

To call into question; to oppose.

The rival contested the dictator's re-election because of claims of voting irregularities.

* J. D. Morell

Few philosophical aphorisms have been more frequently repeated, few more contested than this.

To strive earnestly to hold or maintain; to struggle to defend.

The troops contested every inch of ground.

(legal) To make a subject of litigation; to defend, as a suit; to dispute or resist, as a claim, by course of law; to controvert.

Synonyms

* (contend) compete, contend, go in for * (oppose) call into question, oppose

Antonyms

* (oppose) support

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