contumacy

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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It was chiefly under his influence that it was agreed by this ecclesiastical body at subsequent meetings to summon to the bar their “Burgher” brethren, and finally to depose and excommunicate them for contumacy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" by Various

After he had been kept in prison for a couple of years, Gregory ordered him to have a speedy trial, and threatened Eymerich with punishment for contumacy if his commands were disobeyed.

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