Crossword-Solution: CONTUMACY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Contumacy | n. | Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority. |
| Contumacy | n. | A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “CONTUMACY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| impenitence | 6 answers |
| despite | 38 answers |
| Disobedience | 40 answers |
| Defiance | 54 answers |
| Uprising | 58 answers |
| Contempt | 65 answers |
| Revolution | 71 answers |
| Rebellion | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CONTUMACY (5)
The case was narrowed down to the plain and simple point that Roger Morris was not the legal owner of the estate, and that the rightful heirs could not be made to suffer for the "treason, contumacy and contravention" of another.
Having been dislodged from this point, the Church apologists sought cover under the statement that Galileo was condemned not for heresy, but for contumacy and want of respect toward the Pope.
The Samoans (according to their own account) were denied a copy of the document; they were certainly rated and threatened; their deliberation was treated as contumacy; two German war-ships lay in port, and it was hinted that these would shortly intervene.
The fear of the dreadful punishment for contumacy induced him, at length, to plead "Not guilty," and take his trial in due course of law.
They excite the flame which they strive to extinguish; and it soon becomes necessary to chastise the contumacy, as well as the crime, of the offender.