contumacy
noun/ˈkɒntjʊməsi/UK
Etymology
From Latin contumācia, from contumāx (“refusing to appear in a court of law in disobedience of a summons; insolent, obstinate, stiff-necked”).
- derived from contumācia
Definitions
Disobedience, resistance to authority.
- When an accused person, or a witness, refuses to obey a citation, he shall be cited a second time; and if he still continue to refuse, he shall be excluded from the communion of the church for contumacy, until he repent.
The neighborhood
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