contumacious
adjective
stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient.
contumaciousness
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a word derived from
contumacious.
Example Sentences
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Bid Alice Mount tell Master Ewring there’s like to be a writ out against him for heresy and contumaciousness toward the Church.
From The King's Daughters by Emily Sarah Holt
Satiety comes of riches, and contumaciousness of satiety.—Solon.
From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou
"The charge against you," explained the judge, "is contumaciousness in that you still insist on coveting a property which is claimed by royalty, under the divine right of queens."
From Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage by Raymond Moreau Crosby
To pretend contumaciousness is a wound given to the law.
From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
