affronting
English edit
Verb edit
affronting
- present participle and gerund of affront
- 1961 May, “Editorial: Mr. M. presents Dr. B. - for a limited season only”, in Trains Illustrated, page 258:
- We hope that he is, and that our misgivings arise solely from the Minister's characteristically affronting approach to a railway matter.
Noun edit
affronting (plural affrontings)
- The offering of an affront.
- a. 1631, John Donne, Sermon preached upon the penitential psalms:
- the affrontings of his majesty
Adjective edit
affronting (comparative more affronting, superlative most affronting)
- Offensive, causing an affront.
- 1718, Samuel Keimer, A Brand pluck'd from the Burning, page 108:
- How much more affronting must it be to the Majefty of Heaven, the Great KING, to be thus treated?
- 1866 June 11, Great Britain. Parliament, The Parliamentary Debates, page 165:
- There was afterwards one despatch from the Russian Minister to Earl Russell which in former times must have led to instant war, because it was of a very affronting character to the great nation which the noble Earl represented.
- 1888, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Alexander Allardyce, Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe - Volume 2, page 361:
- The ladies tell me that there is no Adonis, which is very affronting —only old men (alias old women) , and boys like Thomas Thumb, with the legs of a starved spider.