contumacy

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Ripstein cites his “contumacy,” a fancy synonym for stubbornness, as a decisive factor in maintaining an uninterrupted career for 60 years.

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Monsieur le Chevalier, we shall excuse you for your contumacy, having the means of arriving at information by a higher power.

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He disdained to obey the summons, and his excommunication for contumacy was published in all the churches of Paris.

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

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Though Rupert himself had obstinately declined to mend his fortunes by marriage, he seems to have been very anxious to overcome his cousin's contumacy.

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