affront to meet, to encounter:
“Affront his eye,”
THE WINTER'S TALE, v. 1. 75
;
“Affront Ophelia,”
HAMLET, iii. 1. 31
;
“Your preparation can affront no less Than what you hear of”
CYMBELINE, iv. 3. 29
(
“Your forces are able to face such an army as we hear the
enemy will bring against us,”
JOHNSON)
;
“That my integrity and truth to you Might be”
affronted with the match and weight Of such a winnowed
purity in love,
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, iii. 2.
162.
“I wish my integrity might be met and matched with such
equality and force of pure unmingled love,”
JOHNSON)
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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