Dour vs Contumacious - What's the difference?
dour | contumacious |
Stern, harsh and forbidding.
Unyielding and obstinate.
Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.
Contemptuous of authority; willfully disobedient; rebellious.
* 1671 , (John Milton), “(Samson Agonistes)” in The Poetical Works of John Milton , volume 4 (edited by Henry John Todd; published in 1801),
* 1837 , (Thomas Carlyle), The French Revolution , Book 2.V:
(legal) Willfully disobedient to the summons or orders of a court.
As adjectives the difference between dour and contumacious
is that dour is stern, harsh and forbidding while contumacious is contemptuous of authority; willfully disobedient; rebellious.dour
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(en-adj)Synonyms
* forbidding, harsh, severe, stern * (unyielding) obstinate, stubborn, unyielding * (expressing gloom) dejected, gloomy, melancholic, sullenDerived terms
* dourly * dournesscontumacious
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(en adjective)page 505:
- The queen hears of it; takes occa?ion to pa??e wher he is, on purpo?e, that, under prætense of recon?iling to him, or ?eeking to draw a kind retractation from him of the cen?ure on the marriage; to which end ?he ?ends a courtier before, to ?ound whether he might be per?uaded to mitigate his ?entence; which not finding, ?he her?elf craftily a??ays; and, on his con?tancie, ?ounds an accu?ation to Herod of a contumacious affront, on ?uch a day, before many peers; præpares the king to ?ome pa??ion, and at la?t, by her daughter’s dancing, effects it.
- In all places too are Dissident Priests; whom the Legislative will have to deal with: contumacious individuals, working on that angriest of passions; plotting, enlisting.