The contumacious student dared to gainsay his teacher.
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Contumacious
/ˌkɒn.tjʊˈmeɪ.ʃəs/
Synonyms for "contumacious" (52 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Adjective(2 words)
Strong matches (15)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (26)
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More general
3 entriesarchaic usagedescriptive termlegal term
More specific
6 entriesCollocations
6 entriescontumacious attitudecontumacious behaviorcontumacious defendantcontumacious rhetoriccontumacious stancecontumacious witness
Inflections
2 entriesmore contumaciousmost contumacious
Derivations
2 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
9 translations across 7 languages.
French
1 entries- contumace adj (in law, willfully disobedient)
Japanese
1 entries- 服従しない adj (in law, willfully disobedient)
Latin
1 entries- contumax adj (in law, willfully disobedient)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- ulydig adj (in law, willfully disobedient)
Polish
3 entries- krnąbrny adj (in law, willfully disobedient)
- nieposłuszny adj (in law, willfully disobedient)
- oporny adj (in law, willfully disobedient)
Spanish
1 entries- contumaz adj (in law, willfully disobedient)
Swedish
1 entries- tredskande adj (in law, willfully disobedient)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
[…] 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.
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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.
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But the emperor has ordered that if the count remain contumacious Thekla shall be taken from us and placed in a convent, where she will be forced to embrace Catholicism, and will, when she comes of age, be given in marriage to some adherent of the emperor, who will with her receive the greater portion of her father's lands.
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