Definition of Contumacies

1. contumacy [n] - See also: contumacy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contumacies

controversion
controversor
controversors
controversy
controvert
controverted
controverter
controverters
controvertible
controvertibly
controverting
controvertist
controvertists
controverts
contubernal
contumacies (current term)
contumacious
contumaciously
contumaciousness
contumacy
contumelies
contumelious
contumeliously
contumeliousness
contumely
contund
contunded
contunds
conturbation
conturbed

Literary usage of Contumacies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life by John Donne (1839)
"But they are real contumacies, not interpretative, apparent contumacies, not presumptive, that excommunicate a man in heaven ; and much circumspection is ..."

2. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"contumacies ?' Has not he been Russia's patient stepping-stone, all along; his anarchic Poland and he accordant in that, if in nothing else ? ..."

3. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"contumacies ?' Has not he been Russia's patient stepping-stone, all along; his anarchic Poland and he accordant in that, if in nothing else? ..."

4. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"contumacies ?' Has not he been Russia's patient stepping-stone, all along; his anarchic Poland and he accordant in that, if in nothing else ? ..."

5. The Continental Legal History Series by Association of American Law Schools (1913)
""These articles concerning defaults and contumacies met with very many difficulties in practice in respect to the places where the search for the accused ..."

6. A History of Continental Criminal Procedure, with Special Reference to France by Adhémar Esmein, René Garraud, Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier (1913)
"6 "These articles concerning defaults and contumacies met with very many difficulties in practice in respect to the places where the search for the accused ..."

7. History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"contumacies ? " Has not he been Russia's patient stepping-stone, all along; his anarchic Poland and he accordant in that, if in nothing else ? ..."

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