effront

English

Verb

effront (third-person singular simple present effronts, present participle effronting, simple past and past participle effronted)

1. (obsolete) To give assurance to.
   • 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici:

     I am naturally bashful; nor hath conversation, age, or travel, been able to effront, or enhardem me.

Related terms

• effrontery

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “effront”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)