- Look up
contumacy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Contumacy is a
stubborn refusal to obey
authority or,
particularly in law, the
willful contempt of...
- fury, 11
hours later,
having grown before our eyes into a
vexed and
contumacious queen, a battle-axe and a
maniac monster of rage and cruelty ... even...
-
island to
prepare its defence. In
February 1343
Peter declared James a
contumacious v****al and his
kingdom and
lands forfeit. The
legal process being terminated...
- have
produced a
permanent schism any more than
excommunication of any "
contumacious bishop". The
schism began to
develop when all the
other Eastern patriarchs...
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authorising him to use
either or both
these instruments to
apprehend the
contumacious party.
Letters of Fire and
Sword were
issued against the
following clans:...
- delinquent, and
contumacious.
Baptism confers initial jurisdiction,
delinquency refers to
having committed a wrong, and
contumacious indicates the person's...
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Carlin wrote that
Elton John and Iggy Pop were
bemused by an extended,
contumacious Wilson-led
singalong of "Shortenin' Bread",
leading Pop to flee the room...
-
between Satur Ocampo and
Leandro Mendoza with
STRADCOM Corporation is not
contumacious and
protected by the
freedom of speech. "Mario
Teodoro Failon Etong"...
- and take away his
freedom (or money)
until he
purged himself of his
contumacious behavior. This
distinction helped preserve a
separation of
powers between...
- and blasé devil-may-care side-eye
expression creates a
general air of
contumacious insouciance to the concerns, restraints, and
mores of the conservative...
