Contumacy definition
Contumacy means obstinate, perverse and contemptuously rude opposition to lawful authority.
Contumacy means any act or omission by a party to the proceedings designed to defeat or stall the prompt, equitable, transparent, effective and complete determination of the dispute notified in the Claim, and cognate expressions shall have the like meaning;
Examples of Contumacy in a sentence
Your Submission is received, but not without Penance: I must in Mercy to your Soul enjoin you some wholesome Penance for your Contumacy.
But beware of any future Contumacy; for by all the Saints, if my Will be ever more opposed in England, I will lay that damn’d heretical Country under a Curse, whence it shall never be redeemed.