the affront given, out at once go affronter and affrontee

The college has conferred an honorary degree upon the visiting Prime Minister.

You may heap muddlement upon muddlement; and, with a free people, though much mischief is done and much good prevented, still they work on steadily , each man in his private capacity doing something to retrieve the effects of bad or of indolent government.

For example, here is a man, a chief officer or cupbearer, Rabshakeh by name, who represents the king of Assyria […]