affront

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His treatment of you has provoked me so much, I cannot tell to what my resentment may transport me; the affront is as great to me as to you It was late again before the princess Badoura came to queen Haiatalnefous.

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  1. transitive verb To insult intentionally, especially openly. See Synonyms at offend.
  2. transitive verb To meet defiantly; confront.
  3. transitive verb Obsolete To meet or encounter face to face.
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  • Offering tobacco without accepting or understanding the impact of her actions is an affront, an insult, to the Creator, her Nation and her family. [edited]
  • Reeling from this affront, the US State Department was forced to face up to the fact that its president had surrendered the initiative in Latin America to a socialist caudillo with close ties to Fidel Castro, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other leaders from what the US branded the "Axis of Evil". —  RNW: English
  • Casey considered it an "affront," according to Woodward. —  National Review Online
  • Clearly nothing in their vocational training had prepared them for this affront, although a gallant few had the presence of mind to shield the mouthpiece on their headset so as not to transmit the madness over federally-regulated communication lines. —  PoopReport.com
  • Tired of this affront, a mob of state troopers began hunting Farmer door to door. —  theadvertiser.com -
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English afrounten, from Old French afronter : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin frōns, front-, face; see front.

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  1. from Middle English afronten, afrounten, from Old French afronter, afrunter, later and modern F. affronter = Provencal Spanish afrontar = Portuguese affrontar = Italian affrontare, confront, oppose face to face, attack, from Middle Latin affrontare, adfrontare, border on, as land, confront, attack, from Latin ad frontem, to the face, in front: ad, to; frontem, accusative of frons, forehead, front; cf. Latin ā fronte, before, in front: ā for ab, from; fronte, ablative of frons, forehead, front. Cf. afront, preposition phr. as adv.
  2. = French affront = Italian affronto; from the verb.
 

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