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Affronting

Affront \Af*front"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Affronted; p. pr. & vb. n. Affronting.] [OF. afronter, F. affronter, to confront, LL. affrontare to strike against, fr. L. ad + frons forehead, front. See Front.]

  1. To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face. [Obs.]

    All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant.
    --Holland.

    That he, as 't were by accident, may here Affront Ophelia.
    --Shak.

  2. To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter. [Archaic]

  3. To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility.

    How can any one imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius?
    --Addison.

    Syn: To insult; abuse; outrage; wound; illtreat; slight; defy; offend; provoke; pique; nettle.

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affronting

vb. (present participle of affront English)

Usage examples of "affronting".

If the best he that wears a head was for to go for to offer to say such an affronting word to me, I would never give him my company afterwards, if there was another young man in the kingdom.

The Eiffel Tower, raised at the cost of fifteen million uninflated francs, was condemned by many as a disfigurement to Paris, but it lured with affronting style and became famous overnight.

If the best he that wears a head was for to go for to offer to say such an affronting word to me, I would never give him my company afterwards, if there was another young man in the kingdom.

Human bloodhounds were even now on his track, and he spoke calmly of walking out again in the streets of Lyons and of affronting that infamous Laporte, who would find glory in sending him to death.

By sheer brass Lentz suggested names for the committee and Dixon confirmed his nominations, not because he wished to, particularly, but because he was caught off guard and could not think of a reason to refuse without affronting those colleagues.

He was affronting her deepest sensitivities, telling her that she herself was obscene.