Affront
[ə'frʌnt]
Definition
(v. t.) To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.
(v. t.) To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter.
(v. t.) To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility.
(n.) An encounter either friendly or hostile.
(n.) Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult.
(n.) An offense to one's self-respect; shame.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Insult, abuse, outrage.[2]. Offend, displease, irritate, provoke, chafe, fret, vex, annoy, pique, nettle, anger, gall, MIFF, give offence to, make angry.
n. [1]. Insult, abuse, contumely, indignity, outrage, injury, wrong, ill-treatment, ill-turn.[2]. Provocation, offence.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Outrage, provocation, insult, ill-treatment, abuse, wrong, offence, Indignity
ANT:Homage, salutation, courtesy, apology, amends, compliment
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Definition
v.t. to meet face to face: to insult openly: (Shak.) to throw one's self in the way of.—n. contemptuous treatment: an open insult: disgrace.—adj. Affront,fem. Affronté”?b> facing each other: (her.) of animals represented front to front or expectant—opp. to Addorsed; also looking frontwise or toward the beholder.—p.adj. Affront′ed insulted offended.—adj. Affront′ive.—To put an affront upon To offer an affront to = to openly insult a person."
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Unserious Contents or Definition
This is a bad dream. The dreamer is sure to shed tears and weep. For a young woman to dream that she is affronted, denotes that some unfriendly person will take advantage of her ignorance to place her in a compromising situation with a stranger, or to jeopardize her interests with a friend.
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Examples
- Ten thousand unthinkably atrocious deaths could not atone for the affront that you have put upon me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- But I felt it quite an affront to be supposed proud, and said I only wanted to be asked. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Edith was in the mood to think that any pleasure enjoyed away from her was a tacit affront, or at best a proof of indifference. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- And because I have nobody but you to look to, you think you are to make me do, or not do, everything you please, and are to put any affront upon me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This was an assumption of a sort of intimacy that irritated Gudrun almost like an affront. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Then, that,' said the man with the camp-stool, 'is an affront to Doctor Slammer, and a sufficient reason for proceeding immediately. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- When Terkoz saw Tarzan approaching without his arrows, he continued to belabor the poor woman in a studied effort to affront his hated chieftain. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- My father had once been a favourite of hers, I believe; but she was mortally affronted by his marriage, on the ground that my mother was 'a wax doll'. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It will not do, whispered Frank to Emma; they are most of them affronted. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Never, madam, cried he, affronted in his turn: never, I assure you. Jane Austen. Emma.
- She stepped back, affronted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- For they affronted him. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You are not going to be _missish_, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- He is made of venomous insults and affronts, from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Spites, affronts, offences giv' and took, deadly aggrawations, such like,' answered Riderhood. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Haven't you yourself declared that the fellow has heaped provocations, insults, and affronts on you, or something to that effect? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As if he felt himself full to the throat with affronting sentiments. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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