rare. [a. F. contumacité (16th c. in Godef.), f. L. type *contumācitās, f. contumāx; see CONTUMAX and -ITY.] Contumacious quality, stubborn perverseness.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., IV. 671. To tame her contumacitee.
1837. Carlyle, Mirabeau, Misc. Ess. (1888), V. 223. A solemn high-stalking man with such a fund … of contumacity, irrefragability.
