Bible Dictionaries
Contumacy
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.
(2):
(n.) A willful contempt of, and disobedience to, any lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Contumacy'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/contumacy.html. 1828.