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Willful refusal to appear before a court or comply with a court order
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contumacy
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. disobedience, resistance to authority
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Contumacy is a stubborn refusal to obey authority or, particularly in law, the wilful contempt of the order or summons of a court (see contempt of court ). The term is derived from the Latin word contumacia , meaning firmness or stubbornness. In English ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. willful refusal to appear before a court or comply with a court order; can result in a finding of contempt of court obstinate rebelliousness and insubordination; resistance to authority
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Latin contumacia "haughtiness, insolence," noun of quality from contumax (see contumely ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contumacy \Con"tu*ma*cy\, n.; pl. Contumacies . [L. contumacia, fr. contumax, -acis, insolent; prob. akin to contemnere to despise: cf. F. contumace. Cf. Contemn .] Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority. The bishop commanded him . ...
Usage examples of contumacy.
In fact, not a single American reviewer noticed it, and most of them slated the book violently as a mass of heresies and contumacies, a deliberate attack upon all the known and revered truths about the woman question, a headlong assault upon the national decencies.
Frederick being dead, the pope had now only to suppress the contumacy of the Romans.
The pope laid the whole blame upon the city, and being enraged excommunicated her, in which state of contumacy she remained as long as the pontiff lived.
Citta di Castello being in the same state of contumacy, he besieged that place.
Privately he felt the turn-out to be satisfactory, but to ignore the nine cases of contumacy would instantly make a mockery of his authority.
The generous contumacy of Socrates, as Cicero calls it, has been highly celebrated in all ages.