contumaciously

Why should it be so harsh and contumaciously insistent on its own reality?

The whole ground was gone over again in examining him, from the Wickliffite heresies to his exciting rebellion in Prague and contumaciously enduring the excommunication incurred in Vienna.

Who snubs him so contumaciously, when he's a little chap in jackets and they young ladies already out?

A fourth man had, thereupon, put his hat on his head, and had declared contumaciously that the "assertion was not true."

Again, a mystic sisterhood would contumaciously assert itself, as she met the sanctified frown of some matron, who, according to the rumor of all tongues, had kept cold snow within her bosom throughout life.