contumacy

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Contumacy was punishable by expulsion and exclusion from every profession.

From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Reeve, Henry

"Contumacy forsooth, as though 'twas the will of the honest gentlemen in Parliament that boys should be misused for nothing at all!"

From Under the Storm by Yonge, Charlotte Mary