How To Use Contumacious In A Sentence
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She sighed especially over "contumacious"; it was so beautifully long.
'Lizbeth of the Dale
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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
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[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
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By this I knew the hills were still mad, and deeply fissured, and that nesting within remained the contumacious hybrids.
Perquampi
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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
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I believe she was pronounced 'contumacious' by the
The Pacha of Many Tales
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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
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By this I knew the hills were still mad, and deeply fissured, and that nesting within remained the contumacious hybrids.
Perquampi
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The document addresses the public scandal of politicians who persistently and contumaciously oppose the church's teaching without any appropriate response from their pastors.
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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
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In any case, however, where it shall be found contumaciously slighting credibility, and refusing to be reduced to anything like probable fact, we shall beg that we may meet with candid readers, and such as will receive with indulgence the stories of antiquity.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Having so declared he had contumaciously stalked out of the room, and had banged the door after him — very contumaciously indeed.
Ayala's Angel
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Simply put, like whoever posted the diatribe "Traitors to Democracy, Traitors to America, Enemies of Democracy," you show your kinship to the Jacobins of the French Revolution; desirousness of murdering, oops, I should say liberating with extreme prejudice those who are "contumacious" of your socialist/fascist agenda.
Wishing Limbaugh Dead except for the Sarah Factor
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Some jurisconsults, indeed, have wisely held that the contumacious person ought not to be condemned unless the crime were clearly established; but other lawyers have been of a contrary opinion: they have boldly affirmed that the flight of the accused was a proof of the crime; that the contempt which he showed for justice, by refusing to appear, merited the same chastisement as would have followed his conviction.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Again a mystic sisterhood would contumaciously assert itself, as she met the sanctified frown of some matron, who, according to the rumour of all tongues, had kept cold snow within her bosom throughout life.
The Scarlet Letter
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On his refusal to appear in person or by his attorney, he was pronounced contumacious.
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The near neighborhood of the place was chosen, in order to deprive her of all plea of ignorance; and as she made no answer to the citation, either by herself or proxy, she was declared "contumacious;" and the primate proceeded to the examination of the cause.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
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The secretary, and maybe acting contumaciously, believes that unimportant text messaging is rampant in the country and the people should pay taxes for wasting time, energy and money.
Tax proposal on text messaging bucks
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A fourth man had, thereupon, put his hat on his head, and had declared contumaciously that the “assertion was not true”.
Ayala's Angel
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He was practical and level-headed, and the things he saw in this new world contumaciously defied everything he had been taught to believe in.
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On his refusal to appear in person or by his attorney, he was pronounced contumacious.
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The lieutenant contumaciously refusing to comply with this intimation, was in the morning, while he amused himself in walking upon the Bare, suddenly surrounded by the constables of the court, who took him and his adherent prisoners, before they were aware, and delivered them into the hands of the turnkeys, by whom they were immediately dismissed, and their baggage conveyed to the side of the ditch.
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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They might start saying ‘on the other hand’ and contumaciously adding counter-arguments to the lesson plans that they provide.
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I have found him to be in wilful and contumacious breach of the injunction on him, which I am quite certain he knew perfectly well he had to obey in every respect.
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Parliament was intending to impose a penalty on a contumacious employer who decides he is not going to give the employee the required statement.
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The current law in Ontario is that, in order to be ordered to pay costs personally, a solicitor, acting in bad faith, must be guilty of outrageous conduct that is contumacious and so egregious as to engage the contempt powers of the court.
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Here, we're spoonfed a story so contumaciously forceful and unbelievable involving Josie, a second gun, and the boy she loved.
Books in 2008, #6
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These contumacious students were, as students frequently are, inebriated by ideas to the point of silliness.
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For someone who has basked in the glory of being called a military hero for many years, McCain's contumacious behavior makes him so much less of a man than many of the LGBT troops who are currently serving their country.
George Heymont: I Had a "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Dream (And John McCain's Not Gonna Like It)
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Here my memory fails me, but I remember that, stimulated by Miss Deborah's approbation, I did commit the whole of them to memory at the time, and repeated them with a readiness and fluency which drew upon me warm commendations from the dear old lady, and in fact from all in the house, though Ellery Davenport did shrug his shoulders contumaciously and give a sort of suppressed whistle of dissent.
Oldtown Folks
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Heresy could probably still do a service as a technical term for when you defend contumaciously a view found from scripture to be callously unorthodox, rather than just holding an unorthodox opinion.
The word heresy should go the way of burnings at the stake. - 22 Words
