Definitions
treat, mention, or speak to rudely
Word origin
From Middle English afrounten, from Old French afronter (“to hit in the face; to defy”), from Vulgar Latin *affrontare (“to hit in the face”), from Latin ad (“to”) + frōns (“forehead”) (English front). By surface analysis, af- + front.
Used in a sentence
“to affront death”
“Avignon was beginning to settle down for the night – that long painful stretch of time which must somehow be affronted.”
“Sweet Gertrude leaue vs too, / For we haue cloſely ſent for Hamlet hither, / That he, as ’twere by accident, may there / Affront Ophelia.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Deliberate insult”7 letters
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