Usually means: Persistent resistance to authority; obstinacy.
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  1. contumacies: Merriam-Webster
  2. contumacies: Collins English Dictionary
  3. contumacies: Vocabulary.com
  4. contumacies: Wiktionary
  5. Contumacies, contumacies: Dictionary.com
  6. Contumacies: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Contumacies: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. contumacies: FreeDictionary.org
  9. contumacies: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. contumacies: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. contumacies: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contumacies: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contumacy)

noun:  (chiefly Christianity and law) Disobedience, resistance to authority.
▸ Also see contumacy


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