Associations to the word «Contumacious»

Wiktionary

CONTUMACIOUS, adjective. Contemptuous of authority; willfully disobedient; rebellious.
CONTUMACIOUS, adjective. (legal) Willfully disobedient to the summons or orders of a court.

Dictionary definition

CONTUMACIOUS, adjective. Wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient; "a contumaceous witness is subject to punishment".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin