Definition of Contomely
Con"tu*me*ly (?), n. [L.
contumelia, prob. akin to contemnere to despise:
cf. OF. contumelie. Cf. Contumacy.] Rudeness
compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence;
despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech;
disgrace.
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's
contumely.
Shak.
Nothing aggravates tyranny so much as
contumely.
Burke.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- rude language or behaviour; scorn, insult
*1976: I could think of no words adequate to the occasion. So I belched. Not out of contumely, you understand. It was a sympathetic belch, a belch of brotherhood. — Robert Nye, Falstaff
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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