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Definition: Contumacy |
ContumacyNoun1. Willful refusal to appear before a court or comply with a court order; can result in a finding of contempt of court. 2. Obstinate rebelliousness and insubordination; resistance to authority. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "contumacy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Contumacy \Con"tu*ma*cy\, noun; plural Contumacies. [Latin expression contumacia, from contumax, -acis, insolent; probably akin to contemnere to despise: compare to the French expression contumace. Compare to Contemn.]. (references) |
Synonyms: ContumacySynonyms: perverseness, rebellion. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disobedience | Noun: disobedience, insubordination, contumacy; infraction, infringement; violation, noncompliance; nonobservance. |
Obstinacy | Self-will, contumacy, perversity; pervicacy, pervicacity; indocility. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Contumacy |
| English words defined with "contumacy": Commission of rebellion, Contumacies ♦ Stiff neck. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "contumacy": Contumely. (references) |
| "Contumacy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Contumacy" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
contumacy | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "contumacy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mosbindje (defiance, disobedience, insubordination, recalcitrance). (various references) | |
Arabic | تمرد (disobedience, disobey, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, naughtiness, rebel, rebellion, revolt, take the bit in one's hands, turbulence, waywardness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | упорство (obstinacy, patience, persistence, pertinacity, refractoriness, self will), непокорство (disobedience, insubordination, recalcitrance, refractoriness). (various references) | |
Czech | neposlušnost (disobedience, insubordination). (various references) | |
Dutch | contumacieel geding (proceedings conducted in contumacy or in the absence of the defendant), vonnis bij verstek (judgment by default, judgment in absence, judgment in contumacy), verstekvonnis (judgment by default, judgment in absence, judgment in contumacy), proces bij verstek (proceedings conducted in contumacy or in the absence of the defendant), bij verstek gewezen vonnis (judgment by default, judgment in absence, judgment in contumacy). (various references) | |
Farsi | تمرد (Rebellion, Recalcitrance), سرکشی (Rebellion, Recalcitrance), امتناع ازحضوردردادگاه . (various references) | |
Finnish | yksipuolinen tuomio (judgment by default, judgment in absence, judgment in contumacy), asian käsittely oikeudessa vastaajan poissaolosta huolimatta (proceedings conducted in contumacy or in the absence of the defendant). (various references) | |
French | désobéissance. (various references) | |
German | Widerspenstigkeit (contrariness, intractability, obstinacy, obstreperousness, rebelliousness, recalcitrance, stubbornness, unmanageableness, unruliness, willfulness), verstocktheit (obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, stubbornness, unrepentance), gehorsamsverweigerung (insubordination). (various references) | |
Greek | πείσμα (hardheadedness, obstinacy, orneriness, pet, refractoriness, spite, spitefullness, stubborness, stubbornness, tenacity, willfulness), απείθεια (contumaciousness, disobedience, insubordination, intractableness, recusancy, restiveness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "מרי" (defiance, disobedience, rebelliousness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | csökönyösség (balkiness, fractiousness, pertinacity, stubbornness). (various references) | |
Italian | contumacia (absence, default, non-appearance), indocilit (indocility). (various references) | |
Manx | kione-lajerys (obduracy, obstinacy, persistency). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ontumacycay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | contumácia (non-appearance, obstinacy, refractoriness), teimosia (insistence, mulishness, obduracy, obstinacy, persistence, pertinacity, perversity, recalcitrance, stubbornness). (various references) | |
Romanian | contumacie, neascultare (contempt, disobedience, insubordination, obstreperousness). (various references) | |
Russian | неявка в суд (default, non-appearance). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neposlušnost (disobedience, insubordination, recalcitrance), nepokornost (insubordination). (various references) | |
Spanish | contumacia (contempt of court, hardheadedness, obstinacy, obstinateness). (various references) | |
Swedish | tredska (defiance), gensträvlighet. (various references) | |
Turkish | mahkeme davetine uymama, inat (doggedness, intransigent, obstinacy, persistence, pertinacity, spite, stubbornness, tenacity, waywardness), başkaldırı, asilik (disobedience, insubordination). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | упертість (contrariness, induration, intractability, jib, non-compliance, obduracy, obstinacy, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, perversity, piggishness, recalcitrance, tenacity), непокора (disobedience, non-compliance, nonconformity, non-obedience), затятість (obduracy, persistency). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự sỉ nhục sự vô lễ (contumeliousness), sự lăng mạ (affront, contumeliousness, despite, insult), sự hỗn xược (cheekiness, contumeliousness, hardihood). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Contumacy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cartomancy, comtumacy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "contumacy" (pronounced 'Con"tu*ma*cy'): Abbacy, Abeyancy, Abhorrency, Absorbency, Abstinency, Acceptancy, Accordancy, Accountancy, Accumbency, Accuracy, Acquiescency, Acritochromacy, Adequacy, Adherency, Adjutancy, Adolescency, Advocacy, Aeromancy, Affluency, Agency, Aldermancy, Alectoromancy, Alectryomancy, Aleuromancy, Alliciency, Alomancy, Al-phitomancy, Alternacy, -ancy, Antecedency, Anthracomancy, Anthropomancy, Apparency, Appellancy, Appetency, Applicancy, Archiepiscopacy, Ardency, ARISTOCRACY, Arithmancy, Arithmomancy, Arrogancy, Aruspicy, Ascendency, Assurgency, Astragalomancy, Astringency, Athermancy, Attendancy, Austromancy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-m-n-o-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: account. | |
-3 letters: amount, county, outman, toucan. | |
-4 letters: anomy, atomy, atony, aunty, canto, canty, coact, cotan, count, cyano, cyton, macon, mount, muton, notum, octan, toman, uncoy, yamun, yucca. | |
-5 letters: atom, aunt, auto, cant, coat, coca, coma, cony, cyan, cyma, mano, many, maun, maut, mayo, moan, moat, mony, muon, myna, noma, nota, taco, tony, tuna, unco. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-m-n-o-t-u-y" | |
+4 letters: communicatory. | |
+5 letters: actinomycetous, contumaciously, cyanobacterium, unaccustomedly. | |
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