- Look up
contumacy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Contumacy is a
stubborn refusal to obey
authority or,
particularly in law, the
willful contempt of...
- to the
definitions of
innumerable predecessors of Ours.
Speaking of
contumacious heretics,
Saint John the
Evangelist says: "With heretics, do not break...
- have
produced a
permanent schism any more than
excommunication of any "
contumacious bishop". The
schism began to
develop when all the
other Eastern patriarchs...
- delinquent, and
contumacious.
Baptism confers initial jurisdiction,
delinquency refers to
having committed a wrong, and
contumacious indicates the person's...
-
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...
- on each one's
degree of
awareness and only
those who were "aware and
contumacious" were excommunicated. At the
press conference,
journalists received a...
-
Ludovico Fieschi and
Cardinal Antoine de
Challant had been
declared contumacious in the
fourth session of the council, and they were now
negotiating to...
-
spiritual punishment imposed by the
Church on a baptized, delinquent, and
contumacious individual. This
punishment deprives the person,
either wholly or partially...
- 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...
- and take away his
freedom (or money)
until he
purged himself of his
contumacious behavior. This
distinction helped preserve a
separation of
powers between...
