Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To treat with effrontery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To give assurance to.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To give
assurance to.
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Examples
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To allow such an effront out in the open is a clear slap in the face of the American people who have shed blood in order to keep such fiends off of our shores.
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This woman is an effront to all forms of life! by Caronome on Tuesday, Sep 2, 2008 at 10: 57: 30 PM
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This is an effront to every thinking man and woman, as well as irrefutable evidence that there is not merely a monied class, but a ruling class in America.
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The egregious, and endless, redactions, and erasures made by this chief executive are not only in violation of the Presidential Records Act, they speak to the credibility of the commander-in-chief, and are an effront to Congress, the Constitution, and international law.
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I am naturally bashful; nor hath conversation, age, or travel, been able to effront or enharden me; yet I have one part of modesty, which I have seldom discovered in another, that is
Religio Medici 2007
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I am naturally bashful; nor hath conversation, age, or travel, been able to effront [89] or enharden me; yet I have one part of modesty which I have seldom discovered in another, that is, (to speak truely,) I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof.
Religio Medici 1605-1682 1923
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"I am naturally bashful; nor hath conversation, age, or travel been able to effront or enharden me."
Apologia Diffidentis 1905
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I am naturally bashful, nor hath conversation, age, or travel, been able to effront or enharden me; yet I have one part of modesty which I have seldom discovered in another, that is, (to speak truly), I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof.
Sir Thomas Browne and his 'Religio Medici' an Appreciation Alexander Whyte 1878
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I further assert that vegetarianism is among the most nobel of lifestyles, precisely because we are (unfairly) seen as an effront to "other people's lives".
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I further assert that vegetarianism is among the most nobel of lifestyles, precisely because we are (unfairly) seen as an effront to "other people's lives".
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