Contumacious meaning

kŏn'tə-mā'shəs, -tyə-
The definition of contumacious is a stubborn person who refuses to obey rules.

An example of contumacious is someone who will absolutely not wear a seat belt because they don't like to be told what to do.

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Obstinately disobedient or rebellious; insubordinate.
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Obstinately resisting authority; insubordinate; disobedient.
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(law) Willfully disobedient to the summons or orders of a court.
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Origin of contumacious

  • From Latin contumāx (“stubborn, obstinate”)
    From Wiktionary

Contumacious Sentence Examples

  • The first won because the general trend of the world was in their favor, and because their opponents were blind, contumacious, and divided among themselves.

  • His earliest ally was Ahmed "Jezzar," who established himself in Acre in contumacious independence late in the 18th century.

  • courts, and receive back for execution, all contumacious Lollards.

  • The first muttering of the storm which was soon to break was heard in a breve issued in 1741 by Benedict XIV., wherein he denounced the Jesuit offenders as "disobedient, contumacious, captious and reprobate persons," and enacted many stringent regulations for their better government.

  • Declining to appear, she was declared contumacious, and on the 23rd of May the archbishop gave judgment declaring the marriage null and void from the first, and so leaving the king free to marry whom he pleased.

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