affront

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To insult intentionally, especially openly.
2. fiil To meet defiantly; to confront.

   “to affront death”

3. fiil To meet or encounter face to face.

   “Many Iſlands there lie all over that ſea : but one above the reſt, and moſt renowned, is Tazata : for thither all the ſhipping from out of the Caſpian ſea and the Scythian Ocean, doe bend their courſe and there arrive : for that all the ſea coaſts doe affront the Levant, and turne into the Eaſt.”

4. isim An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.

   “Such behavior is an affront to society.”

5. isim A hostile encounter or meeting.