Contumacious vs Vexatious - What's the difference?
contumacious | vexatious |
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.
Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.
(archaic) Full of trouble or disquiet; harassed; distressed; annoyed; vexed.
* Sir K. Digby
(legal, of an action) Commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, without due cause.
As adjectives the difference between contumacious and vexatious
is that contumacious is contemptuous of authority; willfully disobedient; rebellious while vexatious is causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.contumacious
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Adjective
(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.
Synonyms
* (contemptuous of authority) disobedient, insubordinate, obstinate, perverse, rebellious, stubbornvexatious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He leads a vexatious life.
- a vexatious lawsuit