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contumacies

contumacies is the plural of contumacy.

Meaning of contumacy

Noun

contumacy (countable and uncountable, plural contumacies)

  1. Disobedience, resistance to authority.
    • [T]heſe Muſhrome Lords (Spirituall onely in Title, but wholly Temporall in reality), firſt ſprouted up by inſenſible degrees in the Church of Christ; ſo it is moſt infallibly convinced of notorious falſehood, by the multitude of thoſe moſt execrable Treaſons, Treacheries, Conſpiracies, Rebellions...1641, William Prynne, “The Prologve”, in The Antipathie of the English Lordly Prelacie, both to Regall Monarchy, and Civil Unity: or, An Historicall Collection of the Severall Execrable Treasons...

Questions about contumacies

What is contumacies the plural of?
Contumacies is the plural of contumacy.

Words near contumacies in the dictionary

  1. contryphan
  2. contryphans
  3. contubernal
  4. contubernial
  5. contubernium
  6. contumacies
  7. contumacious
  8. contumaciously
  9. contumaciousness
  10. contumacities
  11. contumacity

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