An insult and an insult are affronts.
Affront is the dishonor and shame resulting from a certain saying or deed. It is an outrage , a grievance , an offense , an ignominy or an injury .
For example: “I cannot accept such an affront: I demand that you retract it,” “Mr. Cautore must answer to justice for the unjustified insults he uttered,” “The misuse of national symbols is an affront to the entire nation.” ” .
Different kinds of insults
The insult can occur with certain statements or expressions . The concept does not have a precise definition, since it can overlap with other notions. An insult can express a truth or a lie, and can even become a crime (if it is slander or insult). If an intellectual comments, when faced with cases of pedophile priests, that religious people are abusers by nature, he will be committing an affront.
A soccer coach, to mention another case, can assure that the words of a sports journalist are an affront if said reporter reports on the technical director's lack of attachment to responsible work.
An action can also become an affront. A rock singer who burns a country's flag on stage or a painter who smashes an image of Jesus Christ at a press conference will be carrying out affronts that will generate a reaction from many people.
The insult can be constituted as a crime.
Damage to honor
It is common to speak of a public affront to refer to a personal offense that is committed against someone specifically and that becomes known to the entire community. This particularity causes damage to the person who is offended.
In ancient times, men who felt insulted often challenged their critics to a duel . It was a way of defending honor, demanding a retraction or risking one's life for the conflict. Swords, revolvers or pistols were some of the weapons that were used most frequently in this type of duels to the death.
«Singing of the affront of Corpes»
In addition to all this, we would have to establish that the term in question becomes part of the title of one of the most important chapters of the work “El Cantar del Mío Cid” , dated in the year 1200 and which recounts the adventures of the knight Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (El Cid) . Specifically, it is the third chapter and is called “Song of the affront of Corpes” .
The protagonists of that third song are the infantrymen of Carrión who suffer a disgrace when they make their cowardice evident, both before a lion and before the Arabs against whom they are fighting at that moment. For this reason, they decide to take revenge and what they do is travel with their wives, the daughters of El Cid , to whip them in a certain place and leave them abandoned.
The girls' father asks the king for justice and achieves it. They take revenge on their husbands and the weddings are annulled, so shortly after the women will find themselves engaged again, in that case with the infants of Aragon and Navarra .