contumacious

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  1. adjective Obstinately disobedient or rebellious; insubordinate.

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  • The exasperated Duke was contumacious, irrational; the two Majesties kept pulling different ways upon him. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • They have had many chagrins, especially she, as the prouder, has had, from their contumacious People, -- contumacious Senators at least (strong always both in POCKET-MONEY French or Russian, and in tendency to insolence and folly), -- who once, I remember, demanded sight and count of the Crown-Jewels from Queen Ulrique: "There, VOILA, there are they!" said the proud Queen; —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • [The punishment for the contumacious was expressed by the words onere, frigore, et fame. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2
  • Stripes for the contumacious, and for all —  Man of Uz, and Other Poems
  • "Proud, resentful, sullen" No," said Zabdas beneath that gaze, "I cannot in honesty call her contumacious." —  The Boat of a Million Years
 

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  1. With suffix -ous (as in audacious, vivacious, etc.), = French contumax = Provencal Spanish Portuguese contumaz = Italian contumace, from Latin contumax (contumac-), stubborn, insolent (found unchanged, contumax, in Middle English); origin uncertain; perhaps connected with contemnere, despise: see contemn and contumely.
 

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