different between contumely vs contumacy

English

Etymology

From Old French contumelie, from Latin contum?lia (“insult”), perhaps from com- + tume? (“swell”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?ntju?m?li/

Noun

contumely (countable and uncountable, plural contumelies)

1. Offensive and abusive language or behaviour; scorn, insult.

   • For who would beare the Whips and Scornes of time, The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely [...]

   • 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, page 19 ?ISBN

     She had been subjected to contumely and cross-questoning and ill-usage through the whole evening.

   • 1953, James Strachey, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, p. 178:

     If this picture of the two psychical agencies and their relation to the consciousness is accepted, there is a complete analogy in political life to the extraordinary affection which I felt in my dream for my friend R., who was treated with such contumely during the dream's interpretation.

Related terms

• contumacious
• contumaciously
• contumaciousness
• contumacy
• contumelious

Translations

Further reading

• “contumely”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Etymology

From Latin contum?cia, from contum?x (“refusing to appear in a court of law in disobedience of a summons; insolent, obstinate, stiff-necked”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?ntj?m?si/
• Hyphenation: con?tu?ma?cy

Noun

contumacy (countable and uncountable, plural contumacies)

1. (chiefly Christianity and law) Disobedience, resistance to authority.

Derived terms

• contumacious
• contumaciously
• contumaciousness

Related terms

• contumely

Translations

See also

• contumacy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Contumacy in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

References