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Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient.

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  1. a. Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient.
  2. a. Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court.
  3. adj. wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient
  4. 1. Exhibiting contumacy; contemning authority; obstinate; perverse; stubborn; disobedient. There is another very, efficacious method for subding the most obstinate, contumacious sinner. Hammond. 2. (Law) Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court. Blackstone. Syn. -- Stubborn; obstinate; obdurate; disobedient; perverse; unyielding; headstrong. -- Con`tu*ma"cious*ly, adv. -- Con`tu*ma"cious*ness, n.
  5. Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court.Blackstone.
  6. s. wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient