- Look up
contumacy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Contumacy is a
stubborn refusal to obey
authority or,
particularly in law, the
willful contempt of...
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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:...
- tempt- –
Latin temnere contemn, contemnible, contempt, contemptible,
contumacious, contumacy, contumelious,
contumely tempor- time
Latin tempus, temporis...
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father in
fortifying the land and the
royal authority in the face of the
contumacious and
secessional Fernán González of Castile. He even
married Fernán's...
- and take away his
freedom (or money)
until he
purged himself of his
contumacious behavior. This
distinction helped preserve a
separation of
powers between...
- delinquent, and
contumacious.
Baptism confers initial jurisdiction,
delinquency refers to
having committed a wrong, and
contumacious indicates the person's...
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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...
- 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...
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leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay. He
noted that
while Reddy's
comments were "
contumacious" and that the
timing of his
letter was "suspect" as the
Andhra Pradesh...
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escalated into violence, and
swiftly following their "'insulting and
contumacious words", the
armed mob "did
wickedly kill, mutilate, and
plunder of their...
