10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONTUMACITY»
Discover the use of
contumacity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
contumacity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Garner's Modern American Usage
Bryan Garner. controvertible. So spelled—not *controvertable. See -ABLE (A).
contumacious. See contemptuous (B). contumacy; *contumacity; contumely. Of
the two forms of the noun corresponding to contumacious, contumacy (/kontyuu-
m?
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English Pronouncing Dictionary: Daniel Jones - Selected Works
contumacity— coolie — 82 contumacity vkontju(:)'maesiti contumacy 'kontjumasi
contumelious, -ly, -ness vkontju(:) 'mi:- lias [-ljas], li, -nis contumel|y, -ies 'kontjumil
|i, -iz contus|e, -es, -ing, -ed kan'tju:z [kon-], -iz, -in, -d contusion, -s kan'tju:3»n ...
Daniel Jones, Beverley Collins, Inger M. Mees, 2002
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The Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott: The Abbot. Kenilworth. ...
The former would be contumacity; and to a false tale you will notdesire me to train
my tongue.” “ Surely not,” said Durward; “ but let'your evidence concerning Louis
be confined to what you yourself positively know to be truth ; and when you ...
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Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England
... an “old school acquaintance” to whom he professes no affection, his
description of family life is littered with phrases such as “mutual disgust,” “
determined enmity,” “persevering hostility,” “gratuitous menace,” and “sympt0m[s]
of contumacity.
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The Prose Works: Containing The Abbot, Kenilworth, The ...
The former would be contumacity; and to a false tale you will notdesire me to train
my tongue.” “'Surely not,” said Durward; “ but let your evidence concerning Louis
be confined to what you yourself positively know to be truth ; and when you ...
A solemn, high-stalking man; with such a fund of indignation in him, or of latent
indignation; of contumacity, irrefragability ;—-who (after long experiment)
accordingly looks forth on mankind and this world of theirs with some dull-
snutfling ...
I do not know what inference Mr. Crimsworth drew from my silence —whether he
considered it a symptom of contumacity or an evidence of my being cowed by his
peremptory manner, fyter a long and hard stare at me, he rose sharply from Ms ...
Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, 1869
And the contumacity of old men and women should not be strengthened by the
reckless bestowal of shillings. Knowing that Miss Vanderpoel had already gained
influence among the village people, Mrs. Brent said, she had come to ask her if ...
Frances Hodgson Burnett, 2014
But this was not all — it was clearly in evidence, that Emma had not only carried,
but actually assisted her father to load, one of the guns — thus aiding and
abetting his contumacity. She was, therefore, upon the principle that the
accessary is as ...
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The purely penal law theory in the Spanish theologians from ...
Even when there is an excommunication involved (as in the case of elaborate
hair styles) it may require a prior admonition before being imposed : in that case it
is the contumacity involved that tips the scale towards mortal guilt. 'Qui autem ...
