| 单词 | contumacy |
| 释义 | contumacy /kon"too meuh see, -tyoo-/, n. , pl. contumacies. stubborn perverseness or rebelliousness; willful and obstinate resistance or disobedience to authority. [1150-1200; ME contumacie < L contumacia, equiv. to contumac-, s. of contumax unyielding, stubborn (con- CON- + -tum- of uncert. sense, though connected by classical authors with both contemnere to regard with CONTEMPT and tumere to swell) + -ax adj. suffix) + -ia -IA] |
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