Affront vs Efferent - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between affront and efferent

is that affront is an open or intentional offense, slight, or insult while efferent is a duct or stream that carries away.

is to insult intentionally, especially openly.

carrying away from.

(wikipedia affront)

(en verb)

To insult intentionally, especially openly.

* Addison

How can anyone imagine that the fathers would have dared to affront the wife of Aurelius?

To meet defiantly; to confront.

to affront death

* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 436:

Avignon was beginning to settle down for the night – that long painful stretch of time which must somehow be affronted .

(obsolete) To meet or encounter face to face.

* Holland

All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant.

* Shakespeare

That he, as 'twere by accident, may here / Affront Ophelia.

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(en noun)

An open or intentional offense, slight, or insult.

Such behavior is an affront to society.

(obsolete) A hostile encounter or meeting.

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Carrying away from.

An efferent nerve carries impulses from the brain to the body.

Carried outward.

Efferent impulses are those conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards.

* afferent

(en noun)

A duct or stream that carries away.

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