Definitions for contumacies

contumacies con·tu·ma·cy

Spelling: [kon-too-muh-see, -tyoo-]
IPA: /ˈkɒn tʊ mə si, -tyʊ-/

Contumacies is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 1328 anagrams from letters in contumacies (acceimnostu).

Definitions for contumacies

noun

  1. stubborn perverseness or rebelliousness; willful and obstinate resistance or disobedience to authority.

Origin of contumacies

1150-1200; Middle English contumacie Latin contumācia, equivalent to contumāc-, stem of contumāx unyielding, stubborn (con- con- + -tum- of uncertain sense, though con

Examples for contumacies

I have utterly destroyed its city and its people for its contumacy.

If he has proceeded since, I shall hold him accountable for his contumacy.

He, however, added to his contumacy by surviving until his ninety-second year.

contumacy was punishable by expulsion and exclusion from every profession.

But can the king forgive your intercession and Warwick's contumacy?

To question his imbecile ideas is to stand in contumacy of the revelation of God.

Evidently they were incensed at the contumacy of their victims.

The price of contumacy was outlawry, and decapitation between the two columns.

contumacy towards his father (the late Emperor) by riding on horseback to the very door of the hall of audience at Yuen-min-yuen.

As they failed to appear they were condemned for contumacy and deposed.

Word Value for contumacies
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18

Words with friends

22

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