All 3 Uses of
affront
in
Northanger Abbey
- Do not say Miss Tilney was not angry," cried Catherine, "because I know she was; for she would not see me this morning when I called; I saw her walk out of the house the next minute after my leaving it; I was hurt, but I was not affronted.†
Chpt 12 *
- What could all this mean but an intentional affront?†
Chpt 28
- They were far from being an irritable race; far from any quickness in catching, or bitterness in resenting, affronts: but here, when the whole was unfolded, was an insult not to be overlooked, nor, for the first half hour, to be easily pardoned.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(affront as in: an affront to society) an intentional insult; or to intentionally insult