2. Verb. (third-person singular of affront) ¹
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Definition of Affronts
1. affront [v] - See also: affront
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affronts
Literary usage of Affronts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roman Antiquities: Or, An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans by Alexander Adam, John Richardson Major (1835)
"Personal injuries or affronts (INJURIA) respected either the body, the dignity,
or character of individuals. — They were variously punished at different ..."
2. Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: From the Restoration of King by Gilbert Burnet (1850)
"... and was waiting for a ship to get beyond sea, fearing public affronts, and
had offered to compound by resigning his bishopric, was now prevailed on to ..."
3. Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third by Horace Walpole, George Fisher Russell Barker (1894)
"—Lord Rockingham affronts Pitt.—Unpopularity of the new Lord Chatham.—Changes
and Preferments.—Foreign Policy.—Disturbed State of the Country. ..."
4. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, James Hammond Trumbull, Connecticut Council of Safety, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1850)
"COLONIES, COMPLAINING OP affronts RECEIVED FROM THE NARRAGANSETTS. Hono">
Gen>: [Indians, Vol. I. Doc. No. 4.] The former insolent and proud cariage aud ..."
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