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What does contumacy mean?

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Noun
  1. (chiefly Christianity and law) Disobedience, resistance to authority.
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The price of contumacy was outlawry, and decapitation between the two columns.
Jansenius, who had been led by Miss Wilson to expect the utmost contumacy, looked to her in surprise.
He, however, added to his contumacy by surviving until his ninety-second year.
I have utterly destroyed its city and its people for its contumacy.
But can the king forgive your intercession and Warwick's contumacy?
Evidently they were incensed at the contumacy of their victims.

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