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The quality that gives an affront or offense. Bailey.

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  • BAILEY
    ballium bailey, OF. bail, baille, a palisade, baillier to inclose, 1. The outer wall of a feudal castle. 2. The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. 3. A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as,
  • OFFENSELESS
    Unoffending; inoffensive.
  • GIVES
    Fetters.
  • QUALITY
    1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest
  • AFFRONTEE
    One who receives an affront. Lytton.
  • AFFRONTEDLY
    Shamelessly. Bacon.
  • OFFENSEFUL
    Causing offense; displeasing; wrong; as, an offenseful act.
  • AFFRONTER
    One who affronts, or insults to the face.
  • AFFRONTINGLY
    In an affronting manner.
  • AFFRONT
    affrontare to strike against, fr. L. ad + frons forehead, front. See 1. To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face. All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant. Holland. That he, as 't were by accident, may here Affront Ophelia.
  • AFFRONTE
    Face to face, or front to front; facing.
  • AFFRONTIVE
    Tending to affront or offend; offensive; abusive. How affrontive it is to despise mercy. South.
  • AFFRONTIVENESS
    The quality that gives an affront or offense. Bailey.
  • OFFENSE; OFFENCE
    1. The act of offending in any sense; esp., a crime or a sin, an affront or an injury. Who was delivered for our offenses, and was raised again for our justification. Rom. iv. 25. I have given my opinion against the authority of two great men,
  • INEQUALITY
    An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
  • EQUALITY
    Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under
  • COEQUALITY
    The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.

 

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