contumacy

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"This is the most outrageous case of contumacy I have ever seen," bellowed Lawyer Rogge, obtaining a recess until March 20.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shelley and Sir William Sirs: Shelley was dismissed for contumacy.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was "busted" out of Bryn Mawr for "deplorable contumacy of conduct."

From Time Magazine Archive

For this attempt to enlighten the workingmen, one of the German courts tried him in a state of contumacy and sentenced him to imprisonment.

From Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 by Trotzky, Leon Davidovich

To punish this contumacy they were ordered to be silent, and students were forbidden to listen to them.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles