Usually means: Direct insult or deliberate offense.
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  1. affront: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. affront: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. affront: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. affront: Collins English Dictionary
  5. affront: Vocabulary.com
  6. Affront, affront: Wordnik
  7. affront: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. affront: Wiktionary
  9. affront: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. affront: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. affront: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Affront, affront: Dictionary.com
  13. affront (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. affront: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Affront: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. affront: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. affront: Rhymezone
  18. Affront (m), affront, affront (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. affront: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. affront: Free Dictionary
  21. affront: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. affront: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. affront: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. affront: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. affront: Legal dictionary

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  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See affronted as well.)

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verb:  (transitive) To insult intentionally, especially openly.
verb:  (transitive) To meet defiantly; to confront.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.
noun:  An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
noun:  (obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.

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