Affront

·noun An encounter either friendly or hostile.

II. Affront ·noun An offense to one's self-respect; shame.

III. Affront ·vt To Front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.

IV. Affront ·vt To face in defiance; to Confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter.

V. Affront ·noun Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult.

VI. Affront ·vt To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility.