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affronted, ppl. a.|əˈfrʌntɪd|
[f. affront v. + -ed. In sense 3 used to translate Fr. effronté.]
1. Insulted, offended, injured in one's dignity or modesty. (Refers to the state of feeling of the recipient of the affront.)
1706Col. Rec. Penn. II. 284 He declared he was not at all affronted. 1760G. Lyttelton Dialog. of Dead xxix. (1776) II. 377, I trusted the justification of my Affronted Innocence to the opinion of my Judges. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 153 The affronted patrician. 1879M. E. Braddon Violet III. 231 ‘Your mind wants balance,’ said Miss Skipwith, affronted at this frivolity.
†2. Fronted, faced. Obs.
1586J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 261 Shadowed with woodes and affronted with a large parke. 1708J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. ii. iii. x. (1743) 429 Their heads upward, and affronted inward.
†3. [after Fr. effronté.] Brazen-faced, impudent; full of effrontery. Obs.
1656Earl of Monmouth Advt. fr. Parnassus 66 An act of shameless and affronted impudency. |