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Webster 1913 Edition


Affret

Af-fret′

,
Noun.
[Cf. It.
affrettare
to hasten,
fretta
haste.]
A furious onset or attack.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Affret

AFFRET'

,
Noun.
A furious onset, or attack. [Not used.]

Definition 2024


affret

affret

English

Noun

affret (plural affrets)

  1. (obsolete) An attack.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
      And, passing forward with furious affret,/Pierst through his bever and quite into his brow.