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PRONUNCIATION:

(KON-too/tyoo-muh-see)

MEANING:

noun: Stubborn rebelliousness or insubordination.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin contumacia, from contumax (insolent). Earliest documented use: 1386.

USAGE:

“But knowing that a failure to comply might very well be regarded as contumacy, I reluctantly surrendered the names.”
Catherine Jinks; The Inquisitor; St. Martin’s Minotaur; 2002.

See more usage examples of contumacy in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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