Meanings
adjectiveaffrontive (comparative more affrontive, superlative most affrontive)
comparative more affrontive · superlative most affrontive
- Tending to affront or offend.
Their behaviour to him, when they could not help seeing him, was very cold and disobliging; but as yet not directly affrontive.
1748, [Samuel Richardson], chapter 4, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC
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