Definition of "affronts" []

• Plural form of affront. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of affront. (verb)

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• "The idea that countries want for ways to vindicate these affronts is trulynovel."
• "The very mention of his name affronts the brave Wardanenses to the last extent, making them savage as Oxford bargees."
• "Thence into the galleries to talk with my Lord Sandwich; among other things, about the Prince's writing up to tell us of the danger he and his fleete lie in at Portsmouth, of receiving affronts from the Dutch; which, my Lord said, he would never have done, had he lain there with one ship alone: nor is there any great reason for it, because of the sands."