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  • noun Plural form of contumely.

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Examples

  • 20: 10, "I heard reviling [Douay: 'contumelies'] on every side."

    Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

  • For as obedience is more acceptable to God than sacrifice; so also to set light by His commandments is the greatest of all contumelies.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Cujusque ferae pabulum, saith [1748] Seneca, impatient of heat and cold, impatient of labour, impatient of idleness, exposed to fortune's contumelies.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • When I got home I was surfing the net and found this quote from St. John Chrysostomos "Above all the other members, then, let us control this; let us bridle it; and let us expel from the mouth railings, and contumelies, and foul and slanderous language, and the evil habit of oaths."

    Archive 2005-11-01 Dymphna 2005

  • When I got home I was surfing the net and found this quote from St. John Chrysostomos "Above all the other members, then, let us control this; let us bridle it; and let us expel from the mouth railings, and contumelies, and foul and slanderous language, and the evil habit of oaths."

    God makes it plain Dymphna 2005

  • Orville Mason could readily sympathize with a family which on sight struck him as having, perhaps, like himself endured the whips, the scorns and contumelies of life.

    An American Tragedy 2004

  • At length one of them said, that he thought it was not by fortune, but by the providence of the gods, that Chrysippus came into the world after Arcesilaus and before Carneades; of which the one was the author of the contumelies and injuries done to custom, and the other flourished most of all the Academics.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • This he did not say merely out of vanity and arrogance, or that he were willing, without any advantage, to offend the nobility; but the people always delighting in affronts and scurrilous contumelies against the senate, making boldness of speech their measure of greatness of spirit, continually encouraged him in it, and strengthened his inclination not to spare persons of repute, so he might gratify the multitude.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Besides it was not simple apostasy, but combined with atrocious contumelies and reproaches against God himself.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • He had passed an unsettled life in continued exile up to his eightieth year; having been harassed with many contumelies and injuries, he had endured with difficulty a miserable and anxious existence, in continual trepidation; famine had driven him out of the land whither he had gone, by the command and under the auspices of God, into Egypt.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

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