Sekirov Dictionary

affront

/əˈfrənt/

verb 4
noun 2
forms 5

verb4

To insult intentionally, especially openly.
To be an affront to; offend.
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To meet defiantly; to confront.
- Avignon was beginning to settle down for the night – that long painful stretch of time which must somehow be affronted. — 1978
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(no longer used) To meet or encounter face to face.
- Sweet Gertrude leaue vs too, / For we haue closely sent for Hamlet hither, / That he, as ’twere by accident, may there / Affront Ophelia. — 1599

noun2

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An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
- Such behavior is an affront to society.
(no longer used) A hostile encounter or meeting.

forms

affronted · affronting · affronteth · affronts · affrontest

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