encounterer

noun

encounterer

noun

Etymology From encounter + -er.

1

One who encounters; an opponent or antagonist.

The doctrines of the Reformation have , for near two centuries , kept the field against all encounterers1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther:

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