Definition of Affront. Meaning of Affront. Synonyms of Affront

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Definition of Affront

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Pocket Pock"et, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pocketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Pocketing.] 1. To put, or conceal, in the pocket; as, to pocket the change. He would pocket the expense of the license. --Sterne. 2. To take clandestinely or fraudulently. He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead. --Macaulay. To pocket a ball (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket of the table. To pocket an insult, affront, etc., to receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. ``I must pocket up these wrongs.' --Shak.

Meaning of Affront from wikipedia

- An insult is an expression, statement, or behavior that is often deliberately disrespectful, offensive, scornful, or derogatory towards an individual or...
- AffrontTheater is a theatre group active in Salzburg, Austria. Austria-International Gesellschaft, Vienna (2004). Die Bühne. Verlag Austria International...
- personalities) to the Excession itself and the way in which another society, the Affront, whose systematic brutality horrifies the Culture, tries to use the Excession...
- down through the family for centuries. Traditionally, it is considered an affront, not an honor, to have a newborn named after an older relative and so full...
- Retrieved 2025-01-10. M****imo Tringale (2025-01-10). "Gilbert Burns va affronter un combattant invaincu à l'UFC 314" (in French). actumma.com. Retrieved...
- he also disregarded orders and repeatedly threatened to resign when affronted. In November 1919, the government awarded him the Order of the Red Banner...
- university's Vice-Chancellor Zlatko Skrbis claiming that his acts were "a direct affront to ACU's mission to act in truth and love in the pursuit of knowledge,...
- who enter Israel without permission. Amnesty International called it "an affront to international law". Between 2009 and 2013, approximately 60,000 people...
- to revolution due to a recent military defeat, or economic chaos, or an affront to national pride and identity, or pervasive repression and corruption...
- Science faculty signed a censure describing Butz's Holocaust denial as "an affront to our humanity and our standards as scholars". The letter also called...