Definition of "encountering"

encountering

verb
1. present participle and gerund of encounter
noun
plural encounterings
1. An encounter; a meeting.
  Quotations
  This is still a species of reflection because it thematizes encounterings and things-as-encountered, even if they do not occur in the mental life of the person reflectively observing them.
  2010, Hans Rainer Sepp, Lester E. Embree, Handbook of Phenomenological Aesthetics, page 218
adjective
comparative more encountering, superlative most encountering
1. (obsolete) Fit for an encounter or battle.
  Quotations
  Let vs put on our meet incountering mindes,And in deteſting ſuch a diueliſh Thiefe,In loue of honor and defence of rightBe arm’d againſt the hate of ſuch a foe,Whether from earth, or hell, or heauen he grow.
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act II, scene vi