#avanie

• Affront — Originally, an insult, outrage, act of violence, or flagrant injustice committed by Ottoman authorities against Christian subjects or foreign merchants, often for extortion purposes. In a modern and broader sense, the term designates a deep insult, a public humiliation, systematic harassment, or a severe injustice suffered by a person from someone in a position of power.
• To insult deeply — To deeply insult, humiliate, harass, or subject someone to an outrage; to extort or wrong a person by taking advantage of a position of authority. Historically used in the administrative or vernacular language of regions under Phanariot influence to describe the act of oppressing or imposing abusive taxes.
• Extorcated — Regarding people or entities: subjected to an outrage, deeply insulted, humiliated, harassed, or extorted by an oppressive authority. Regarding goods or sums: obtained abusively, through plunder, violence, or illegal tax impositions during the Ottoman or Phanariot administration.
• Petty harassment — An archaic diminutive form or rare regional variant of 'avanie'; a minor insult, a petty harassment, or a small but annoying injustice committed by someone. In certain ancient dialects, the term could also describe a small arbitrary tax or an unexpected extraction imposed by bailiffs.