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Definition of Affrontive

Affrontive
Affrontive Af*front"ive, a. Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive. How affrontive it is to despise mercy. --South.

Meaning of Affrontive from wikipedia

- An insult is an expression, statement, or behavior that is often deliberately disrespectful, offensive, scornful, or derogatory towards an individual or...
- AffrontTheater is a theatre group active in Salzburg, Austria. Austria-International Gesellschaft, Vienna (2004). Die Bühne. Verlag Austria International...
- region at first encountered resistance from southern whites, who were affronted by their opposition to slaveholding and traditional ideals of masculinity...
- personalities) to the Excession itself and the way in which another society, the Affront, whose systematic brutality horrifies the Culture, tries to use the Excession...
- publication, the essay's argument for equality between the ****es was an affront to European conventional norms regarding the status of men and women. In...
- received, and insulted Aurangzeb by refusing imperial service. For this affront he was detained, but managed to effect a daring escape. Shivaji returned...
- secretary, "[t]he casting of a Caucasian actor made up to appear Asian is an affront to the Asian community." The London production featured Pryce in yellowface...
- with three crowned golden leopards' heads affrontés caboshed Or, langued in gules. The lions' heads affrontés were historically referred to as leopards...
- Gambie : l'opposition désigne Adama Barrow comme candidat unique pour affronter Yahya Jammeh en décembre Archived 29 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine...
- time and allied with the Mughals, and is primarily remembered for his affronts to the chaste virtue of brahmin women, his drug use, and his ****ociation...