contumacy
contumaciousness

He has treated me with contumacy; he must be punished.

In the end for contumacy he was in 1631 degraded, and fined.

Another four hundred were executed for contumacy.

The former are detained here for a period thirty times as long as their period of contumacy.

But on pretence of former contumacy the vice-chancellor commanded him again to surrender himself prisoner.

Those who died in Contumacy of Holy Church.

He was suspended for contumacy.

He declared that he knew more about the things in heaven and earth than those who taught him, and for this contumacy was abandoned altogether.

The churchwardens of Beckington refused to carry out the change, and were excommunicated for their contumacy.

The Court may imprison for contumacy, bad-faith litigation, and failure to obey a writ of mandamus.

At first acquitted on the charge of sedition for his part in this revolutionary movement, he was finally sentenced to life imprisonment for contumacy.

The delegates returned to their places and requested that Gregory and Benedict be declared guilty of contumacy.

Privately he felt the turn-out to be satisfactory, but to ignore the nine cases of contumacy would instantly make a mockery of his authority.

Your appalling infantile contumacy.

In traditional Chinese law, contumacy (曰惡逆) is one of the Ten Abominations.

The king after suffering this for a long time determined to punish them for their contumacy, and summoned all the Agharias to appear before him.

Savakanmaindan professed initial contumacy to Pandyan rule but eventually submitted.

--[Constantine Rancher had been condemned in contumacy for the forgery of a public document.

The assumed half-proof is strengthened, first, by the contumacy of the suspect; secondly, by his confession of the charge in question.

Contumacy was the name of the alternative campus publication at the University of Texas at Austin which was published from 1997-2006.

In canon law, a censure is a medicinal penalty imposed primarily for the purpose of breaking contumacy and reintegrating the offender in the community.

If she objects, tell her it is my particular wish; and if she resists, say I shall come and fetch her in case of contumacy.'"

The civil authorities, construing this as contumacy, deposed Glanaeus, and Pezel preached in his place.

Compromised by the royalist insurrection of 13 vendémiaire an IV (5 October 1795), he was condemned to death for contumacy.

The opponent was the jurist Master Roger, who bluntly declared that Becket's punishment suited his crime of contumacy.