Usually means: Stubborn resistance to authority; disobedience.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. contumacy: Merriam-Webster
  2. contumacy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contumacy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contumacy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contumacy: Vocabulary.com
  6. contumacy: Wordnik
  7. contumacy: Wiktionary
  8. contumacy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. contumacy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. contumacy: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. contumacy: Dictionary.com
  12. Contumacy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Contumacy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. contumacy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. contumacy: Rhymezone
  16. Contumacy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. contumacy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. contumacy: FreeDictionary.org
  19. contumacy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. contumacy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. contumacy: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. contumacy: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Contumacy (in Canon Law), contumacy: Legal dictionary

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  1. Contumacy (in Canon Law), contumacy: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (contumacy)

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

Similar:
contumacity, contempt, disobedience, contempt of court, authority issues, misobedience, uncompliance, disobeyal, contravention, misobservance, more...

Adjectives:
such, continued, own, open, persistent, republican, obstinate, supposed, generous, alleged, female

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Similar:
contumacity, contempt, disobedience, contempt of court, authority issues, misobedience, uncompliance, disobeyal, contravention, misobservance, more...

Adjectives:
such, continued, own, open, persistent, republican, obstinate, supposed, generous, alleged, female



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