Definition of "afront"

afront

adverb
not comparable
1. in front; face to face
preposition
1. in front of
  Quotations
  These four came all afront, and mainly thrust / at me. I made me no more ado, but took all their seven / points in my target, thus!
  a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 2, scene 4, lines 195–197