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Definition of Contumelies
1. contumely [n] - See also: contumely
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contumelies
Literary usage of Contumelies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1837)
"... contumelies of the populace, who companionship.* every where assembled in
crowds to The chaini: having been suppressed gaze on them, six hundred miles ..."
2. Aquinas Ethicus: Or, The Moral Teaching of St. Thomas. A Translation of the by Thomas, Joseph Rickaby (1896)
"Ought a man to bear the contumelies put upon him ? ... For we are bound to have
our heart in readiness to bear contumelies, if it be expedient. ..."
3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1842)
"... and think the same thing; and that, no Arian contumelies remaining, it may he
said and confessed in every Church, one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, ..."
4. Disce Vivere: Learn to Live by Christopher Sutton (1848)
"So then we must learn by his example, how to bear the contumelies of this world,
to wit, with a calm and quiet mind. We must learn it also by his precepts, ..."
5. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"This controversy, about indignities and contumelies done to princes, doth recall
into my mind the violence wherewith former kings have resented them. ..."
6. The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life by John Donne (1839)
"... that man so torn and mangled, wounded with thorns, oppressed with scorns and
contumelies, Pilate presents and exhibits so, Ecce homo, Behold the man. ..."
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