To Affront Face B Encounter From  Verb Obsolete

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 \\ə-ˈfrənt\\ transitive verb1.
  a. to insult especially to the face by behavior or language
  b. to cause offense to
      a system of law about both family and marriage that affronted lay society — J. H. Mundy
2.
  a. to face in defiance : 

confront

      affront death
  b. obsolete : to encounter face-to-face
3. to appear directly before
Synonyms: see 

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noun1. obsolete : a hostile encounter
2. a deliberate offense : 

insult

    an affront to his dignity

af·front
I. \əˈfrənt, aˈ-\ transitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English afronten, afrounten, from Middle French afronter, affronter, from (assumed) Vulgar Latin affrontare, from Latin ad- + front-, frons forehead — more at 
1. 
 a. : to insult especially to the face by behavior or language
  < those who now smile upon and embrace would affront and stab each other if manners did not interpose — Earl of Chesterfield >
 b. : to offend especially by showing disrespect
  < the prince affronted his father by embarking on a love affair — Geoffrey Bruun >
2. 
 a. : to face in defiance : 
  < affront death >
 b. archaic : to meet in hostile encounter
 c. obsolete : to meet or encounter face to face
3. : to appear directly before
 < the still fresh scar on the hillside which affronts the traveler's eye — Norman Douglas >
4. archaic : to front upon : border upon
Synonyms: see 
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle French, back-formation from affronter
1. 
 a. : a deliberately offensive act or utterance
  < in this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life — Scott Fitzgerald >
 b. : an offense to one's self-respect
  < for the Greeks, the Roman Empire was a necessity of life and at the same time an intolerable affront — A.J.Toynbee >
2. obsolete : a hostile encounter
Synonyms: 
 , :  is a deliberate indication of disrespect calculated to offend
  < an old affront will stir the heart through years of rankling pain — Jean Ingelow >
  < my determination to break this educational lockstep was an affront to their pride as schoolmasters — Sidney Lovett >
   refers to a personal attack intended to rankle and humiliate
  < the insults offered to the Federal troops by the women of New Orleans — W.C.Ford >
  < he suffered the greatest insult ever offered to a man in the House of Commons: when he entered with the Liberal party, the Conservatives rose to a man and left the House — O.S.J.Gogarty >
   indicates an outrageous or contemptuous offense to one's personal dignity
  < that after all which had passed he should be compelled to accept his pardon at Caesar's hands was an indignity to which he could not submit — J.A.Froude >
  < to nearly all men serfdom was, without qualification, a degrading thing, and they found trenchant phrases to describe the indignity of the condition — R.W.Southern >