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af·front (ə frunt′)
transitive verb
- to insult openly or purposely; offend; slight
- to confront defiantly
- Archaic to come before; meet; face
Etymology: ME afronten < OFr afronter, to encounter face to face < ML *affrontare < ad-, to + frons, forehead
noun
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Converse of object
- put: Not that I would put an affront upon the learning of any of those honorable employments, much less upon their persons.
Adjective modifier
- personal: But our sin is above all a personal affront to God.
Modifying Another Word
- almost: In both cases, I was almost affronted to find that I remembered almost none of the detail of their complex plots.
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Be like the thistle,O my soul, Heedless o'praise and quick to take affront
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