different between pertinacity vs contumacy

English

Etymology

From Middle French pertinacité, from Old French pertinace (“obstinate, stubborn”).

Noun

pertinacity (usually uncountable, plural pertinacities)

1. The state or characteristic of being pertinacious.
   • 1846, E.A.Poe, The Black Cat

     With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase. It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend.

   • 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables, ch. 19:

     Again and again, however, and half a dozen other agains, with the inexorable pertinacity of a child intent upon some object important to itself, did he renew his efforts for admittance.

Synonyms

• pertinaciousness, resolve, stubbornness, tenacity

Translations

Anagrams

• antipyretic

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