Word Meanings - AFFRONTEE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who receives an affront. Lytton.

Related words: (words related to AFFRONTEE)

• AFFRONTEE
  One who receives an affront. Lytton.
• AFFRONTEDLY
  Shamelessly. Bacon.
• AFFRONTER
  One who affronts, or insults to the face.
• AFFRONTINGLY
  In an affronting manner.
• AFFRONT
  affrontare to strike against, fr. L. ad + frons forehead, front. See 1. To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face. All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant. Holland. That he, as 't were by accident, may here Affront Ophelia.
• AFFRONTE
  Face to face, or front to front; facing.
• AFFRONTIVE
  Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive. How affrontive it is to despise mercy. South.
• AFFRONTIVENESS
  The quality that gives an affront or offense. Bailey.