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have affronted

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There were even moments when she fancied herself vaguely to blame for her immunity, and felt that she ought somehow to have affronted the perils and hardships which refused to come to her.

From The Reef by Wharton, Edith

And you have a quantity of impudence, to appear before me, that you so lately have affronted.

From The Recruiting Officer by Farquhar, George

I said, I must desire you to oblige me, Mr. Longman, or I shall think I have affronted you.

From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Richardson, Samuel

We have affronted and put to shame Rome, before whom all nations bow and, assuredly, she will take a terrible vengeance.

From For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

But she said, 'I have affronted King Richard through his house.'

From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Hewlett, Maurice Henry