contumacious

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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
• The saint was even said to have been put on his trial in mockery, declared contumacious, and condemned as a traitor. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Henri VIII - A.F. Pollard
• The fear of the dreadful punishment for contumacy[38] induced him at length to plead "Not guilty," and take his trial in due course of law 38] The punishment for the contumacious was expressed by the words onere, frigore, et fame_. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• But on the other hand Knox himself was at once cited to appear in Edinburgh, condemned in absence as a contumacious heretic, and burned at the Cross in the High Street--in effigy. —  John Knox

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