affrontedly

English

Etymology

affronted +‎ -ly

Adverb

affrontedly (comparative more affrontedly, superlative most affrontedly)

  1. (obsolete) shamelessly
    • 1616, Francis Bacon, Act of Council on Commendam Case:
      his Majesty had observed that ever since his coming to the crown , the popular sort of lawyers have been the men that most affrontedly in all Parliaments have trodden upon his prerogative

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “affrontedly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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