Affront

1. n. An offense to one’s self-respect; shame.
2. v. t. To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.
3. v. t. To face in defiance; to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter.
4. v. t. To offend by some manifestation of disrespect; to insult to the face by demeanor or language; to treat with marked incivility.
5. n. An encounter either friendly or hostile.
6. n. Contemptuous or rude treatment which excites or justifies resentment; marked disrespect; a purposed indignity; insult.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.