Inflexible vs Contumacious - What's the difference?
inflexible | contumacious | Related terms |
Not flexible; not capable of bending or being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding.
Not willing to change, e.g. one's opinion or habits; obstinate; stubborn; resolute; determined.
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.
Inflexible is a related term of contumacious.
As adjectives the difference between inflexible and contumacious
is that inflexible is not flexible; not capable of bending or being bent; stiff; rigid; firm; unyielding while contumacious is contemptuous of authority; willfully disobedient; rebellious.inflexible
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* See also * unflexibleAntonyms
* flexibleReferences
* ----contumacious
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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.
