'Contumeliousness' definitions:
Definition of 'Contumeliousness'
From: GCIDE
- Contumelious \Con`tu*me"li*ous\ (?or ?; 106), a. [L. contumeliosus.]
- 1. Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful. [1913 Webster]
- Scoffs, and scorns, and contumelious taunts. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Curving a contumelious lip. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Shameful; disgraceful. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More. -- {Con`tu*me"li*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Con`tu*me"li*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]