• IPA: /əˈfɹʌnt/

affront (affronts, present participle affronting; past and past participle affronted)

1. To insult intentionally, especially openly.
2. To meet defiantly; to confront.

   to affront death

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 436:

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

3. (obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene i], page 265 ↗, column 1:

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

• See also Thesaurus:offend

• French: défier, jeter le gant, envoyer un cartel
• German: beleidigen
• Italian: insultare
• Portuguese: afrontar
• Russian: оскорбля́ть
• Spanish: afrentar, ofender

• French: se confronter
• Portuguese: afrontar, encarar

• French: rencontrer sur le terrain, aller sur le pré
• Spanish: afrontar, confrontar

affront (plural affronts)

1. An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.

   Such behavior is an affront to society.

2. (obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.

• See also Thesaurus:offense

• effrontery

• French: défi, affront
• German: Affront
• Italian: affronto
• Portuguese: afronta
• Russian: оскорбле́ние
• Spanish: afrenta, afruenta, baldón

• French: duel, rencontre