contumacy
Meaning
Disobedience, resistance to authority.
Synonyms
non-attendance
failure to appear
default of appearance
failure to to report
Hyphenated as
con‧tu‧ma‧cy
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkɒntjʊməsi/
Etymology
From Latin contumācia, from contumāx (“refusing to appear in a court of law in disobedience of a summons; insolent, obstinate, stiff-necked”).
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