How To Use Contumaciously In A Sentence
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
