Effront vs. Affront

Effrontverb

(obsolete) To give assurance to.

Affrontverb

To insult intentionally, especially openly.

Effrontverb

To give assurance to.

Affrontverb

To meet defiantly; to confront.

‘to affront death’;

Affrontverb

(obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.

Affrontnoun

An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.

‘Such behavior is an affront to society.’;

Affrontnoun

(obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.

Affrontverb

To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.

‘All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant.’; ‘That he, as 't were by accident, may hereAffront Ophelia.’;

Affrontverb

To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter.

Affrontverb

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

‘How can any one imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius?’;

Affrontnoun

An encounter either friendly or hostile.

‘I walked about, admired of all, and dreadedOn hostile ground, none daring my affront.’;

Affrontnoun

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

‘Offering an affront to our understanding.’;

Affrontnoun

An offense to one's self-respect; shame.

‘Captious persons construe every innocent freedom into an affront. When people are in a state of animosity, they seek opportunities of offering each other insults. Intoxication or violent passion impels men to the commission of outrages.’;

Affrontnoun

a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront;

‘turning his back on me was a deliberate insult’;

Affrontverb

treat, mention, or speak to rudely;

‘He insulted her with his rude remarks’; ‘the student who had betrayed his classmate was dissed by everyone’;

Affrontnoun

an action or remark that causes outrage or offence

‘he took his son's desertion as a personal affront’; ‘the sackings were an affront to justice’;

Affrontverb

offend the modesty or values of

‘she was affronted by his familiarity’;