Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To insult intentionally, especially openly. synonym: offend.
- transitive verb To meet defiantly; confront.
- transitive verb Obsolete To meet or encounter (another) face to face.
- noun An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
- noun Obsolete A hostile encounter or meeting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To meet or encounter face to face; confront; front; face.
- To offend by an open manifestation of disrespect; put a slight upon; offend by effrontery or insolence: as, to
affront one by doubting his word; an affronting speech. - To put out of countenance; make ashamed or confused; give a shock to.
- noun The act of opposing face to face; open defiance; encounter.
- noun A personally offensive act or word; an intentional or supercilious slight; an open manifestation of disrespect or contumely; an insult to the face.
- noun Shame; disgrace; anything producing a feeling of shame or disgrace.
- noun Synonyms Affront, Insult, Indignity, Outrage, provocation, impertinence, offense, rudeness. These words express disrespect shown in a way that is, or is meant to be, galling. An affront is generally open and to the face. An insult is stronger, perhaps accompanied by more insolence of manner; it is a deeper disgrace and a greater injury to the feelings of its object. An indignity is, specifically, treatment that is unworthy — an affront, insult, injury, or outrage from which one's condition or character should have saved one: as, Zenobia was subjected to the indignity of being led in chains at Aurelian's triumph. An outrage, primarily involving the idea of violence to the person, is a wanton transgression of law or propriety in any way, the perpetration of that which is shamefully contrary to the dictates of humanity or even decency; toward a person it is a combination of insult with indignity; hence it often stands for extreme abusiveness of language. It has freedom of use sufficient to make proper such expressions as, an outrage to his feelings, an outrage to all decency.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.
- transitive verb Archaic To face in defiance; to confront; ; hence, to meet in hostile encounter.
- transitive verb To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility.
- noun obsolete An encounter either friendly or hostile.
- noun Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult.
- noun An offense to one's self-respect; shame.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
insult intentionally, especially openly. - verb To meet
defiantly ; toconfront . - verb obsolete To meet or
encounter face to face. - noun An open or intentional
offense ,slight , orinsult . - noun obsolete A hostile encounter or meeting.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of deliberate disrespect
- verb treat, mention, or speak to rudely
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The U.S. hid the operation from Pakistan for fear that the raid plans would leak to militants, but the unilateral action brought protests from Pakistani leaders over what they called an affront to their sovereignty.
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The U.S. hid the operation from Pakistan for fear that the raid plans would leak to militants, but the unilateral action brought protests from Pakistani leaders over what they called an affront to their sovereignty.
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The affront is the point here, these sorts of bills are almost exclusively written by people who want the RKBA destroyed.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Mayor Bloomberg’s gun show bill 2010
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The affront is the point here, these sorts of bills are almost exclusively written by people who want the RKBA destroyed.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Mayor Bloomberg’s gun show bill 2010
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This is a plain affront to the intent of Congress when they passed FISA (and, ironically in the AH case, Congress would have gladly amended FISA had the administration proposed it).
The Volokh Conspiracy » What Al-Haramain Says, And What It Doesn’t Say 2010
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The affront is said to have taken place in the "Iron Blood Bulletin Board Community."
Boing Boing 2007
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Perhaps the biggest affront is to the music and lyrics of Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh.
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Perhaps the biggest affront is to the music and lyrics of Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh.
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(That many Christians find even the existance of atheist an intolerable intellectual affront is shown by the common reaction to that quote, which reads it as teaching atheism (it doesn't) and attacking theism (which again, it does not).)
Atheists Speak Out 2005
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This affront is exacerbated by the fact that he was in Cabo which the rich Gringos and Mexicans have appropriated from the locals for their sybaritic pleasures while the Mexican laborers who work to support the infrastructure of their exclusionary compounds live in distant tarpaper shacks because the Mexican government has not seen fit to force developers to provide decent housing for workers.
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