Mutiny vs Contumacy - What's the difference?
mutiny | contumacy | Related terms |
An organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers.
* Macaulay
Violent commotion; tumult; strife.
* Shakespeare
To commit mutiny.
disobedience, resistance to authority
Mutiny is a related term of contumacy.
As nouns the difference between mutiny and contumacy
is that mutiny is an organized rebellion against a legally constituted authority, especially by seamen against their officers while contumacy is disobedience, resistance to authority.As a verb mutiny
is to commit mutiny.mutiny
English
Noun
(wikipedia mutiny) (mutinies)- In every mutiny against the discipline of the college, he was the ringleader.
- Raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves.
Verb
- The crew of the Bounty mutinied because of the harsh discipline of Captain Bligh.