Contumacious means “wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient,” according to Princeton’s Wordnetweb.
I’d never heard or seen the word before I read Ong’s Orality and Literacy. It appears there on page 79.
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Contumacious means “wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient,” according to Princeton’s Wordnetweb.
I’d never heard or seen the word before I read Ong’s Orality and Literacy. It appears there on page 79.