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Meanings of great affront in English
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Usage of great affront in English
1
Besides, 'tis no great affront to be called wiser than one is.
2
This was a great affront.
3
Maybe the great affront to Australian society today is the woman who covers her face or refuses to show us her body.
4
You sometimes say, under some great affront, "I will not stand it;" but perhaps you are compelled to stand it.
5
To offer them any thing to eat on a metal or earthen plate which others have used, would be considered a great affront.
6
Let him also take a most Christian-kingly ,vigorousresolution against the great affront put upon him in the failure to carry out the treaty.
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Great affronts among private men have often been the occasion of great charity.
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No greater affront could be offered to them than to cut off their treasured locks.
9
No greater affront can be offered to a Sulu, than to underrate his dignity and official consequence.
10
By doing neither you have put upon her the greatest affront that a man may put upon a woman.
11
Mungo Park writes: Everywhere in Africa, I have noticed that no greater affront can be offered a Negro than insulting his mother.
12
It was a greater affront to the General-in-chief than the king was likely to understand, but it could not shake the old soldier's loyalty.
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"The two greatest affronts you could offer him in old times were, to break an engagement, and to despise his good cheer."