Contumaciousness

"The charge against you," explained the judge, "is contumaciousness in that you still insist on coveting a property which is claimed by royalty, under the divine right of queens." ❋ Samuel Hopkins Adams (1914)

A doctrine of election from which universal grace is eliminated, necessarily leads to despair or to contumaciousness and carnal security. ❋ Unknown (1894)

State with characteristic contumaciousness would not repeal. ❋ Unknown (1888)

The sight of what he was about, and of the tender way in which he was handling the child, drove all remembrance of his heresies and contumaciousness in the matter of psalmody out of her head. ❋ Thomas Hughes (1859)

Satiety comes of riches, and contumaciousness of satiety. ❋ Maturin Murray Ballou (1857)

If such an expedient is ever to be had recourse to, it can only be in cases of contumaciousness and rebellion; and then the instructor cannot too unreservedly say to himself, "This is matter of deep humiliation to me: I ought to have succeeded by an appeal to the understanding and ingenuous feelings of youth; but I am reduced to a confession of my impotence." ❋ Unknown (1831)

These symptoms of contumaciousness were nevertheless borne by the Baronet without complaint, -- ❋ John Badcock (1823)

Prevesa illustrates for us more than any other action the difficulties with which the path of the partisan leader in these days must always have been filled; and how it was that personal ascendancy was the only force to which such a leader had to trust Sheer dominance of the minds, the wills, and the bodies of others had placed Kheyr-ed-Din where he was; all his life he had commanded undisciplined pirates, and yet now, when he was the properly accredited officer of a mighty monarch, when he might have expected far more discipline and subordination than had ever been his lot in the past, he was met with a contumaciousness which he was unable to quell, and was forced into taking steps which, in his own unequalled knowledge of war, he knew to be doomed to disaster. ❋ E. Hamilton Currey (N/A)

"Bid Alice Mount tell Master Ewring there's like to be a writ out against him for heresy and contumaciousness toward the Church. ❋ Emily Sarah Holt (1864)