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n. Obstinate or contemptuous resistance to authority; stubborn rebelliousness.

n. disobedience, resistance to authority

n. Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.

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.

n. Wilful and persistent resistance to legitimate authority of any kind; unyielding disobedience; stubborn perverseness in an illegal or wrong course of action.

n. Specifically In law, wilful disobedience to a lawful order of a judicial or legislative body, or wilful contempt of its authority; a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned.

n. obstinate rebelliousness and insubordination; resistance to authority

n. willful refusal to appear before a court or comply with a court order; can result in a finding of contempt of court

"As he resisted all Davies's attempts to enlighten him, and met his master's threats with a stedfastness which these friends to liberty called contumacy, the alternative was dismissal from his present service, without any remuneration for his past."

rebelliousness    insubordination    noncompliance    disobedience   

contumacious   

perverseness    stubbornness    obstinacy    disobedience   

undutifulness    incompliance    obduracy    insubordination    disrespect