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Example sentences for "contumaciously"

Lexicographically close words:
controvert; controverted; controverting; controverts; contumacious; contumacy; contumelious; contumeliously; contumely; contused
  1. Contumaciously neglecting to do this, Innocent IV.

  2. If then he continues contumaciously to deny what has been or may be proved against him, he is to be handed over to the secular arm, in accordance with the canon law, as a pertinacious and incorrigible heretic.

  3. The whole ground was gone over again in examining him, from the Wickliffite heresies to his exciting rebellion in Prague and contumaciously enduring the excommunication incurred in Vienna.

  4. The Visconti remained contumaciously absent and were duly condemned as heretics.

  5. Thus contumaciously assembled in defiance of the summons of the Inquisition, they were in open rebellion against the Church.

  6. Spinola, on his part, was exceedingly irritated that the arrangements which he had so carefully made with the archduke at Brussels should be so contumaciously assailed, and even disavowed, at Madrid.

  7. But I would solemnly warn you not to employ it contumaciously against the officers of the Holy Office, nor to hinder them in the duty which they are here to perform, lest you render yourself the object of their just resentment.

  8. Having so declared he had contumaciously stalked out of the room, and had banged the door after him,--very contumaciously indeed.

  9. A fourth man had, thereupon, put his hat on his head, and had declared contumaciously that the "assertion was not true.


  10. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contumaciously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.