Also 6 com- [f. CONFRONT v. + -ER.] One who confronts. (In quot. 1599 said of a country: see CONFRONT v. 1.)
1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe, 31. Lippitudo Atticæ (as it was saide of Ægina her neere comfronter).
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., VI. xxv. 116. [Bassianus] could not endure an equall (much lesse a confronter) in authority.
1616. ed. Marlowe’s Faust., Wks. (Rtldg.), 119/1. This Pope, This proud confronter of the Emperor.
