contumacious

How To Use contumacious In A Sentence

• She sighed especially over "contumacious"; it was so beautifully long. 'Lizbeth of the Dale
• She was in the act of fixing up "contumacious," and making it a little more un-English if possible, when the poke awoke her to her surroundings. 'Lizbeth of the Dale
• [FN#67] Márid (lit. "contumacious" from the Heb. root Marad to rebel, whence "Nimrod" in late Semitic) is one of the tribes of the Jinn, generally but not always hostile to man. Arabian nights. English
• By this I knew the hills were still mad, and deeply fissured, and that nesting within remained the contumacious hybrids. Perquampi
• Now, so far was this authority of the royal race from having fallen into decay, that Herod, having been cited before it, with difficulty escaped capital punishment, because he contumaciously withdrew from it. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
• I believe she was pronounced 'contumacious' by the The Pacha of Many Tales
• I had tumbled into, and all the injuries I had done myself, and all the times she had wished me in my grave, and I had contumaciously refused to go there. Great Expectations
• By this I knew the hills were still mad, and deeply fissured, and that nesting within remained the contumacious hybrids. Perquampi
• The document addresses the public scandal of politicians who persistently and contumaciously oppose the church's teaching without any appropriate response from their pastors.
• No, my Lord; the safe principle is to keep the tenant two or three gales behind, and if he fails in submission, or turns restiff, and becomes openly contumacious, then you have the means of rectifying the errors of his judgment in your own hands, and it can be done with the color of both law and justice, behind which any man may stand without the imputation of harsh motives, or an excessive love of subordination. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two