rencounter

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First, there was the old and ever present cause of solicitude in relation to his own origin, the doubtful nature of which had been the remote cause of the unhappy rencounter of the morning.

From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by Caruthers, William A. (Alexander)

This rencounter at Front Royal was one of the most brilliant affairs of the war and it illustrated well the marvelous intuition with which General Custer often grasped the situation, in an instant of time.

From Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by Kidd, James Harvey

I cannot helpe smiling, whenever I think of my rencounter with William this morning.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

Do you remember how he describes King Robert’s rencounter with the English knight?”

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay

It is not the smile, the chance word, the pleasant or even the hostile rencounter in the outer courts; it is that  we do not respect each other’s silences.

From A New Atmosphere by Hamilton, Gail