Contumacy

Quick meaning: Contumacy is a noun meaning (chiefly Christianity and law) Disobedience, resistance to authority.

Meaning

(chiefly Christianity and law) Disobedience, resistance to authority.

Example Sentences

When an accused person, or a witness, refuses to obey a citation, he shall be cited a second time; and if he still continue to refuse, he shall be excluded from the communion of the church for contumacy, until he repent.

Persons Judicially cited, are ſometimes wont, by a Non-Appearance in Court, to contemn the Judges Authority; and thereby to render themſelves contumacious: wherefore, I will conſider theſe Perſons under the following heads. […] 2dly, Examine how many Species or Kinds of Contumacy there are. […] The Plaintiff on the Return of a Peremptory Citation ought not to accuſe the Contumacy of the Perſon ſummon'd, otherwiſe he ſhall not be adjudged contumacious.

Word Forms

• contumacies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include contumacity, contempt, disobedience, misobedience, uncompliance, disobeyal.

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