affronting

affronting

1. present participle and gerund of affront
   • 1961 May, “Editorial: Mr. M. presents Dr. B. - for a limited season only”, in Trains Illustrated, page 258:

     We hope that he is, and that our misgivings arise solely from the Minister's characteristically affronting approach to a railway matter.

affronting (plural affrontings)

1. The offering of an affront.
   • a. 1631, John Donne, Sermon preached upon the penitential psalms:

     the affrontings of his majesty

affronting (comparative more affronting, superlative most affronting)

1. Offensive, causing an affront.
   • 1718, Samuel Keimer, A Brand pluck'd from the Burning, page 108:

     How much more affronting must it be to the Majefty of Heaven, the Great KING, to be thus treated?

   • 1866 June 11, Great Britain. Parliament, The Parliamentary Debates, page 165:

     There was afterwards one despatch from the Russian Minister to Earl Russell which in former times must have led to instant war, because it was of a very affronting character to the great nation which the noble Earl represented.

   • 1888, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, ‎ Alexander Allardyce, Letters from and to Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe - Volume 2, page 361:

     The ladies tell me that there is no Adonis, which is very affronting —only old men (alias old women) , and boys like Thomas Thumb, with the legs of a starved spider.