- Look up
contumacy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Contumacy is a
stubborn refusal to obey
authority or,
particularly in law, the
willful contempt of...
- tempt- –
Latin temnere contemn, contemnible, contempt, contemptible,
contumacious, contumacy, contumelious,
contumely tempor- time
Latin tempus, temporis...
- delinquent, and
contumacious.
Baptism confers initial jurisdiction,
delinquency refers to
having committed a wrong, and
contumacious indicates the person's...
- have
produced a
permanent schism any more than
excommunication of any "
contumacious bishop". The
schism began to
develop when all the
other Eastern patriarchs...
- 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...
-
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...
-
cases wherein the use of
torture is allowed, the offender,
whenever he
contumaciously refuses to
confess the truth,
shall forthwith be put to the question...
-
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...
- to the
definitions of
innumerable predecessors of Ours.
Speaking of
contumacious heretics,
Saint John the
Evangelist says: "With heretics, do not break...
- and take away his
freedom (or money)
until he
purged himself of his
contumacious behavior. This
distinction helped preserve a
separation of
powers between...
