affront vb. (the precise sense in passages under 2 and 3 is doubtful)
1.
to meet, accost
Ham. III. i. 31
“That he . . . may here
Affront Ophelia.”
2.
to face, encounter
Wint. V. i. 75, Cym. IV. iii. 29.
3.
to confront; meet,
respond to Troil. III. ii.
173.
