- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
- to the
definitions of
innumerable predecessors of Ours.
Speaking of
contumacious heretics,
Saint John the
Evangelist says: "With heretics, do not break...
-
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:...
-
Thurmond moved the bill
through the Senate,
calling draft-card
burning "
contumacious conduct"
which "represents a
potential threat to the
exercise of the...
