The Only Use
contumacious
in
Great Expectations
(Edited)
- "Trouble?" echoed my sister; "trouble?" and then entered on a fearful catalogue of all the illnesses I had been guilty of, and all the acts of sleeplessness I had committed, and all the high places I had tumbled from, and all the low places I had tumbled into, and all the injuries I had done myself, and all the times she had wished me in my grave, and I had contumaciously refused to go there.
p. 27.7contumaciously = stubbornly refused
Definitions:
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(1)
(contumacious) willfully obstinate; or stubbornly disobedient
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)