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contumatiously

contumatiously is the obsolete form of contumaciously.

Meaning of contumaciously

Adverb

contumaciously (comparative more contumaciously, superlative most contumaciously)

  1. In a contumacious manner.
    • The Curate of Lobourne sent in a report that Master Richard's lessons were contumaciously disregarded …1859, George Meredith, chapter 4, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC

Forms of contumatiously

comparativemore contumatiously
superlativemost contumatiously

Questions about contumatiously

What is contumatiously the obsolete form of?
Contumatiously is the obsolete form of contumaciously.

Words near contumatiously in the dictionary

  1. contumaciousness
  2. contumacities
  3. contumacity
  4. contumacy
  5. contumatious
  6. contumatiously
  7. contumelies
  8. contumelious
  9. contumeliously
  10. contumeliousness
  11. contumely

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contumatiously (page history and authors); contumaciously (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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