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   contumacious

   /ˌkɒntjʊˈmeɪʃəs/

   adjective

   • 1. (especially of a defendant's behaviour) stubbornly or wilfully disobedient to authority: archaic "his refusal to make child support payments was contumacious"

   Word Origin late 16th century: from Latin contumax, contumac- (perhaps from con- ‘with’ + tumere ‘to swell’) + -ious.

   Derivatives

   • 1. contumaciously adverb

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