The Only Use
contumacious
in
The Scarlet Letter
(Edited)
- Again a mystic sisterhood would contumaciously assert itself, as she met the sanctified frown of some matron, who, according to the rumour of all tongues, had kept cold snow within her bosom throughout life.
p. 81.4contumaciously = stubbornly defiant
Definitions:
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(1)
(contumacious) willfully obstinate; or stubbornly disobedient
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)