affrontment
/əˈfrʌntm(ə)nt/noun
1Hostile confrontation; opposition.
2The action or an act of affronting or insulting someone. Also: the feeling resulting from this; indignation at having been insulted or offended.
Origin
Early 17th century; earliest use found in John Speed (d. 1629), historian and cartographer. From affront + -ment, in sense 1 after French affrontement face-to-face encounter (between two individuals), encounter (between two armies) for battle or combat.
- unrequitable
- unrequital
- unrequited
- unrequitedly
- unrequitedness
- unrequitement
- unrequiter
- unrescinded
- unrescued
- unresearched
- unresemblant
- unresemble
- from soup to nuts
- from stem to stern
- from strength
- from the (bottom of one's) heart
- from the bottom up
- from the dead
- from the floor
- from the ground up
- from the horse's mouth
- from thence
- from thenceforth
- from the top
- from the (very) first