Affront has 4 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
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| 1. | Those who threatened the religious order were severely punished. The reason for this is, of course, obvious. The religious authorities gave the monarch divine right, and an affront to the religious establishment was a threat to the monarch's power. | |
| 2. | “If a lady,” he said, “asked him any question upon the subject, he would neither answer her nor speak to her again while he lived; if a gentleman, he would consider it as a mortal affront, and demand satisfaction as having received such.” | |
| 3. | Yanni took that as a personal affront. | |
| 4. | Ferhat Mehenni insulted the Algerian flag and this was an affront to all Algerian citizens. |