(a.) Willfully disobedient to the summous or prders of a court.
Example Sentences:
(1) Twenty-five minutes later, with the arcane and archaic legalities duly addressed, the final decree porrected and any opposition to the election declared contumacious, the 57-year-old former oil executive was confirmed as the 105th archbishop of Canterbury, in the presence of several senior bishops.
(2) A hypertensive man had a long standing history of contumacious hyperpathia in the right upper extremity, resistant to medical therapy, secondary to a lacunar infarct in the left thalamus.
Froward
Definition:
(a.) Not willing to yield or compIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child.
Example Sentences:
(1) Updated at 6.46pm BST 6.43pm BST 82 min : Devoid of ideas, Italy launch a long ball froward.