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Affrontery vs Effrontery - What's the difference?

affrontery | effrontery |

As nouns the difference between affrontery and effrontery

is that affrontery is obsolete spelling of lang=en while effrontery is insolent and shameless audacity.

affrontery

English

Noun

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  • * {{quote-book, year=1868, author=Stephen Meany, title=Speeches from the Dock, Part I, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=With an affrontery that did not falter, and knew not how to blush, he detailed his own participation in the acts for which he was prosecuting me as a participator. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1909, author=John R. Musick,, title=Sustained honor, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=This Englishman should neither out-do him in generosity nor affrontery . }}
  • An affront
  • * {{quote-news, year=1996, date=January 12, author=Tom Frank, title=Capital Lies, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Skyboxes are a grotesque affrontery to authentic fandom

    effrontery

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Insolent and shameless audacity.
    • We even had the effrontery to suggest that he should leave the country.
  • (countable) An act of insolent and shameless audacity.
    • Any refusal to salute the president shall be counted as an effrontery .

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "effrontery")

    References

    * 2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised) , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198610572 * 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988 *