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contumacious

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12 lettersPronunciation /ˌkɒn.tjʊˈmeɪ.ʃəs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted accimnoostuuStarts with CEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient

Word origin

From Latin contumāx (“stubborn, obstinate”) + -ious.

Used in a sentence

  • […] and, on his conſtancie, ſounds an accuſation to Herod of a contumacious affront, on ſuch a day, before many peers; præpares the king to ſome paſſion, and at laſt, by her daughter’s dancing, effects it.
  • In all places too are Dissident Priests; whom the Legislative will have to deal with: contumacious individuals, working on that angriest of passions; plotting, enlisting.
  • Its verbs are conjugated in a way that defies all the injunctions of the grammar books; it has its contumacious rules of tense, number and case; […]

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