encounterer

From encounter +‎ -er.

encounterer (plural encounterers)

1. One who encounters; an opponent or antagonist.
   • 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther:

     The doctrines of the Reformation have , for near two centuries , kept the field against all encounterers

• “encounterer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• re-encounter, reencounter