1. Insulted, offended, injured in one’s dignity or modesty. (Refers to the state of feeling of the recipient of the affront.)
1706. Col. Rec. Penn., II. 284. He declared he was not at all affronted.
1760. G. Lyttelton, Dialog. of Dead, xxix. (1776), II. 377. I trusted the justification of my Affronted Innocence to the opinion of my Judges.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 153. The affronted patrician.
1879. Miss Braddon, Vixen, III. 231. ‘Your mind wants balance,’ said Miss Skipwith, affronted at this frivolity.
† 2. Fronted, faced. Obs.
1586. Ferne, Blazon of Gentrie, 261. Shadowed with woodes and affronted with a large parke.
1708. J. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., II. III. x. (1743), 429. Their heads upward, and affronted inward.
† 3. [after Fr. effronté.] Brazen-faced, impudent; full of effrontery. Obs.
1656. Earl Monm., Advt. fr. Parnassus, 66. An act of shameless and affronted impudency.
