= contumacy, n.; also, a pronouncing a person to be in contumacy.

Disobedience; obstinacy.

(a) Disobedience. (b) Stiffness of body.

Perverse and obstinate resistance of or disobedience to authority; rebellious stubbornness.

Refractoriness, rebelliousness, contumacy, obstinacy. Obsolete.

Stubbornness, intractability, rebelliousness. Obsolete.

Contumacious quality, stubborn perverseness.

= pervicacity, n.

The quality or state of being pervicacious; obstinacy; stubbornness; wilfulness.

= contumacy, n.

= refractoriness, n.

Obstinacy, stubbornness, contrariness; stubborn disobedience or resistance to some authority, control, etc. Also figurative.

The quality of being incorrigible.

uncomplying obstinacy.

An instance of refractory opposition or action.

the quality of being intractable; intractability.

The quality of being unmanageable.

The state or property of being refractive (in any sense); (Medicine and Biology) resistance to infection, a parasite, etc.

(un-, prefix1 affix 6. Cf. untractible, adj.)

(un-, prefix1 affix 6. Cf. untractable, adj.)

= recalcitrance, n.

Recalcitrant character or behaviour.