Meaning

(transitive) To insult intentionally, especially openly..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To insult intentionally, especially openly.
2. (transitive) To meet defiantly; to confront.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.
4. An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
5. (obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.

Example Sentences

But beſides, that ſuch a thought was inconſiſtent with the gravity of a Senate, how can one imagine that the Fathers would have dared affront the Wife of Aurelius, and the Mother of Commodus, or that they could think of giving offence to an Empreſs whom they afterwards Defied, and to an Emperor that was the darling of the army and people?

to affront death

Avignon was beginning to settle down for the night – that long painful stretch of time which must somehow be affronted.

Many Iſlands there lie all over that ſea : but one above the reſt, and moſt renowned, is Tazata : for thither all the ſhipping from out of the Caſpian ſea and the Scythian Ocean, doe bend their courſe and there arrive : for that all the ſea coaſts doe affront the Levant, and turne into the Eaſt.

Sweet Gertrude leaue vs too, / For we haue cloſely ſent for Hamlet hither, / That he, as ’twere by accident, may there / Affront Ophelia.

Such behavior is an affront to society.

This day, thou ſhalt haue ingots : and, to morrow, / Giue lords th’ affront.

Word Forms

• affronts
• affronting
• affronted

Synonyms for affronté

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