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affrontery

noun

Etymology

From affront + -ery.

  1. derived from ad
  2. derived from *affrontare✻
  3. derived from afronter
  4. inherited from afrounten
  5. suffixed as affrontery — “affront + ery”

Definitions

  1. Obsolete spelling of effrontery.

    • With an affrontery that did not falter, and knew not how to blush, he detailed his own participation in the acts for which he was prosecuting me as a participator.
    • This Englishman should neither out-do him in generosity nor affrontery.

  2. An affront

    • Skyboxes are a grotesque affrontery to authentic fandom[…].

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA