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affrontive, a.|əˈfrʌntɪv|
[f. affront v. + -ive, in imitation of words like effect-ive in which -ive is properly added to the L. ppl. stem.]
Of affronting character or tendency.
1659Gauden Tears of Ch. 510 Affrontive to the glory [of] God and the Honor of the Catholick Church. 1704Logan in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem. IX. 331 Rude and most affrontive language. 1748Richardson Clarissa iv. (1811) I. 23 Their behaviour..was very cold and disobliging, but as yet not directly affrontive. 1823Lamb Elia Ser. ii. xxiv. (1865) 410 The affrontive quality of the primitive enquiry. |