contumacy

  • 11contumacy — noun disobedience, resistance to authority …

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  • 12contumacy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. rebelliousness, disobedience. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The disposition boldly to defy or resist authority or an opposing force: contempt, defiance, despite, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy. See… …

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  • 13contumacy — con·tu·ma·cy || kÉ’ntjÊŠmÉ™sɪ n. stubbornness, obstinacy; insubordination, disobedience …

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  • 14contumacy — n. 1. Obstinacy, stubbornness, doggedness, perverseness, pertinacity, headiness, obduracy. 2. Disobedience, insubordination, insolence, disrespect …

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  • 15contumacy — n 1. perverseness, perversity, perversion, contrariety, frowardness, refractoriness, wrong headedness; obstinacy, stubbornness, mulishness, pig headedness, bullheadedness; willfulness, intractableness, doggedness, obduracy; intransigence,… …

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  • 16contumacy — con·tu·ma·cy …

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  • 17contumacy — con•tu•ma•cy [[t]ˈkɒn tʊ mə si, tyʊ [/t]] n. pl. cies stubborn rebelliousness; willful resistance or disobedience to authority • Etymology: 1150–1200; ME < L contumācia; see contumacious, ia …

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  • 18contumacy — /ˈkɒntʃuməsi/ (say konchoohmuhsee) noun (plural contumacies) 1. stubborn perverseness or rebelliousness; wilful and obstinate resistance or disobedience to authority. 2. Law wilful refusal to obey an order of a court. {Middle English contumacie,… …

  • 19contumacy — The contemptuous disobedience of an order of the court; refusal to submit to authority. See contempt …

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  • 20contumacy — n. stubborn refusal to obey or comply. Etymology: L contumacia f. contumax: see CONTUMACIOUS …

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