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  • Satan aggreditur, eorùmque mentes contemptus libertate et refractaria contumacia, aduersus Deum et sacrum ministerium, etiam hîc armare non negligit.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Satan aggreditur, eor鵰que mentes contemptus libertate et refractaria contumacia, aduersus Deum et sacrum ministerium, etiam h頲 armare non negligit.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Yet parrhesia never had an exact equivalent in Rome; when it was translated by licentia, contumacia, an element of criticism was often implied.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968

  • [130] "Libertas sine gratia nihil est nisi contumacia, non libertas."

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • * Libertas sine gratia nihil est nisi contumacia, non libertas.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • _ 42, 'Non contumacia neque inani iactatione libertatis famam fatumque provocabat.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Occasionally they have been sent to jail; more often they have been convicted in their absence -- condannati in contumacia -- and dare not return to their native land.

    Courts and Criminals Arthur Cheney Train 1910

  • The Romans had only the short forms audacia, contumacia, which should have given us audacy as well as contumacy; but because our ancestors burdened themselves with an extra syllable in one we need not therefore do so in the other.

    Formations. 1908

  • Creuitque contumacia quam dudum diluuii unda puniuerat et qui numerosam annorum seriem permissus fuerat uiuere, in breuitate annorum humana aetas addicta est.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • But this will come because I have failed to interpret accurately the meaning of those words, “oris oculorumque illa contumacia ac superbia quam videtis.”

    The Life of Cicero Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1881

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