Word Meanings - AFFRONTIVENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality that gives an affront or offense. Bailey.

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• BAILEY
  ballium bailey, OF. bail, baille, a palisade, baillier to inclose, 1. The outer wall of a feudal castle. 2. The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. 3. A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as,
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• OFFENSELESS
  Unoffending; inoffensive.
• QUALITY
  1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest
• AFFRONTEE
  One who receives an affront. Lytton.
• AFFRONTEDLY
  Shamelessly. Bacon.
• OFFENSEFUL
  Causing offense; displeasing; wrong; as, an offenseful act.
• 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.
• OFFENSE; OFFENCE
  1. The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury. Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification. Rom. iv. 25. I have given my opinion against the authority of two great men,
• INEQUALITY
  An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
• EQUALITY
  Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under
• COEQUALITY
  The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.