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Definitions for contumelious
con·tu·me·lious
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Princeton's WordNet
contumeliousadjective
arrogantly insolent
Wiktionary
contumeliousadjective
Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful.
Etymology: From contumeliosus, from contumelia.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Contumeliousadjective
Etymology: contumeliosus, Latin.
With scoffs and scorns, and contumelious taunts,
In open market-place produc’d they me
To be a publick spectacle. William Shakespeare, Henry VI. p.i.In all the quarrels and tumults at Rome, though the people frequently proceeded to rude contumelious language, yet no blood was ever drawn in any popular commotions, ’till the time of the Gracchi. Jonathan Swift, on the Dissent. in Athens and Rome.
There is yet another sort of contumelious persons, who, indeed, are not chargeable with that circumstance of ill employing their wit; for they use none in it. Governm. of the Tongue.
Giving our holy virgins to the stain
Of contumelious, beastly, madbrain’d war. William Shakespeare, Timon.As it is in the highest degree injurious to them, so is it contumelious to him. Decay of Piety.
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contumelious
Contumelious refers to being scornful and insulting in manner or speech. It describes someone who is rudely abusive, showing a critical or disrespectful attitude.
Webster Dictionary
Contumeliousadjective
exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful
Contumeliousadjective
shameful; disgraceful
Etymology: [L. contumeliosus.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of contumelious in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of contumelious in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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