Definitions for contumacy

contumacy con·tu·ma·cy

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

Contumacy is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 266 anagrams from letters in contumacy (accmnotuy).

Definitions for contumacy

noun

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

Origin of contumacy

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 contumacy

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

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

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

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.

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

Evidently they were incensed at the contumacy of their victims.

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

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

contumacy was punishable by expulsion and exclusion from every profession.

Word Value for contumacy
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18

Words with friends

22

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