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What is the noun for contumelious?

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contumely
  1. Offensive and abusive language or behaviour; scorn, insult.
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    1. “One finds in Wolcot's mock-epic a shower of contumely constantly trained upon epic.”
      “True, Marx mentions a few authors by name, but only to pour heavily Teutonic scorn and contumely upon them.”
      “You're never going to please everybody, but my feeling is there seems to have been less contumely than might have been expected, because we have taken people with us.”
contumacy
  1. (chiefly Christianity and law) Disobedience, resistance to authority.
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    1. “To question his imbecile ideas is to stand in contumacy of the revelation of God.”
      “As is pointed out in the cases cited, there is no statutory definition of contumacy.”
      “If necessary such an internationalised national court of justice could judge certain responsibles of genocide by contumacy.”
contumeliousness
  1. The state or quality of being contumelious.
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