Word Meanings - AFFRONTIVENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.