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Look up contumacy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Contumacy is a stubborn refusal to obey authority or, particularly in law, the willful contempt of...

tempt-  – Latin temnere contemn, contemnible, contempt, contemptible, contumacious, contumacy, contumelious, contumely tempor- time Latin tempus, temporis...

have produced a permanent schism any more than excommunication of any "contumacious bishop". The schism began to develop when all the other Eastern patriarchs...

of Congress, requesting DOJ prosecution of Pagliano for misdemeanor "contumacious conduct." Backpage.com March 17, 2016 Senate Homeland Security Permanent...

cases wherein the use of torture is allowed, the offender, whenever he contumaciously refuses to confess the truth, shall forthwith be put to the question...

and take away his freedom (or money) until he purged himself of his contumacious behavior. This distinction helped preserve a separation of powers between...

Carlin wrote that Elton John and Iggy Pop were bemused by an extended, contumacious Wilson-led singalong of "Shortenin' Bread", leading Pop to flee the room...

to the definitions of innumerable predecessors of Ours. Speaking of contumacious heretics, Saint John the Evangelist says: "With heretics, do not break...

fury, 11 hours later, having grown before our eyes into a vexed and contumacious queen, a battle-axe and a maniac monster of rage and cruelty ... even...

delinquent, and contumacious. Baptism confers initial jurisdiction, delinquency refers to having committed a wrong, and contumacious indicates the person's...

cases wherein the use of torture is allowed, the offender, whenever he contumaciously refuses to confess the truth, shall forthwith be put to the question...

father in fortifying the land and the royal authority in the face of the contumacious and secessional Fernán González of Castile. He even married Fernán's...

demanded John's presence — a tactical impossibility — and declared John a "contumacious vassal."[citation needed] As the Lusignan allies managed to detain both...

Thurmond moved the bill through the Senate, calling draft-card burning "contumacious conduct" which "represents a potential threat to the exercise of the...

authorising him to use either or both these instruments to apprehend the contumacious party. Letters of Fire and Sword were issued against the following clans:...

Foxe's inaction as a canon of the cathedral led him to him being declared contumacious, and he was charged with failing to give a tithe for repairs to the cathedral...

leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay. He noted that while Reddy's comments were "contumacious" and that the timing of his letter was "suspect" as the Andhra Pradesh...

size of Trudeau's fraud and the flagrant and repetitive nature of his contumacious conduct." Trudeau served most of his sentence at the Federal Prison Camp...

142.201.244. eISSN 2056-743X. ISSN 0081-1564. Cameron, C (2014). "'Contumaciously Absent'? The Lords of the Isles and the Scottish Crown". In Oram, RD...

island to prepare its defence. In February 1343 Peter declared James a contumacious vassal and his kingdom and lands forfeit. The legal process being terminated...