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Contumacy

Webster's Dictionary

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(1):

(n.) Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.

(2):

(n.) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Contumacy'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/contumacy.html. 1828.
 
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