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affront

English

Etymology

From Middle English afrounten, from Old French afronter (to defy), from Vulgar Latin *affrontare (to hit in the face), from Latin ad (to) + fr?ns (forehead) (English front).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??f??nt/
  • Rhymes: -?nt

Verb

affront (third-person singular simple present affronts, present participle affronting, simple past and past participle affronted)

  1. To insult intentionally, especially openly.
  2. To meet defiantly; to confront.
    to affront death
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 436:
      Avignon was beginning to settle down for the night – that long painful stretch of time which must somehow be affronted.
  3. (obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:offend

Translations

Noun

affront (plural affronts)

  1. An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.
  2. (obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:offense

Related terms

  • effrontery

Translations

References

  • “affront”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

French

Etymology

From Old French afront. Synchronically analysable as a deverbal of affronter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.f???/

Noun

affront m (plural affronts)

  1. affront, insult, snub

Derived terms

  • afront

Descendants

  • ? Polish: afront
  • ? Romanian: afront

Further reading

  • “affront” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • offrant

Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??fr?nt/

Verb

affront (third-person singular present affronts, present participle affrontin, past affrontit, past participle affrontit)

  1. to affront; cause to feel ashamed; cause to blush; to humiliate (in front of others), to offend (not necessarily with intention)

References

  • Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

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exasperate

English

Etymology

From Latin exasper?; ex (out of; thoroughly) + asper? (make rough), from asper (rough).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /???zæsp(?)?e?t/
  • (Received Pronunciation, also) IPA(key): /???z??sp??e?t/
  • Rhymes: -æsp??e?t
  • Hyphenation: ex?as?per?ate

Verb

exasperate (third-person singular simple present exasperates, present participle exasperating, simple past and past participle exasperated)

  1. To tax the patience of, irk, frustrate, vex, provoke, annoy; to make angry.
    • c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 3, scene 6:
      And this report
      Hath so exasperate [sic] the king that he
      Prepares for some attempt of war.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3:
      The picture represents a Cape-Horner in a great hurricane; the half-foundered ship weltering there with its three dismantled masts alone visible; and an exasperated whale, purposing to spring clean over the craft, is in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mast-heads.
    • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, chapter 11:
      Beadle goes into various shops and parlours, examining the inhabitants; always shutting the door first, and by exclusion, delay, and general idiotcy, exasperating the public.
    • 1987 January 5, "Woman of the Year: Corazon Aquino," Time:
      [S]he exasperates her security men by acting as if she were protected by some invisible shield.
    • 2007 June 4, "Loyal Mail," Times Online (UK) (retrieved 7 Oct 2010):
      News that Adam Crozier, Royal Mail chief executive, is set to receive a bumper bonus will exasperate postal workers.

Translations

Adjective

exasperate (comparative more exasperate, superlative most exasperate)

  1. (obsolete) exasperated; embittered.
    • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act V, Scene 1,[1]
      Thersites. Do I curse thee?
      Patroclus. Why no, you ruinous butt, you whoreson indistinguishable cur, no.
      Thersites. No! why art thou then exasperate, thou idle immaterial skein of sleave-silk []
    • 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman & Hall, 1857, Book 4, p. 177,[2]
      Like swallows which the exasperate dying year
      Sets spinning []

Related terms

See also

  • exacerbate

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “exasperate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eksaspe?rate/, /e?zaspe?rate/

Verb

exasperate

  1. adverbial present passive participle of exasperar

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ek.sas.pe?ra?.te/, [?ks?äs?p???ä?t??]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ek.sas.pe?ra.te/, [??z?sp?????t??]

Verb

exasper?te

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of exasper?

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