Sentence examples for contumacy from inspiring English sources

As a member of the Scottish Parliament in 1665, he was active in opposing the harsh policy of the earl of Lauderdale toward the Covenanters, and for his contumacy he was imprisoned.

In the repression that followed, 328 Estonians were shot or hanged, and Päts and the Radical leader Jaan Teemant fled abroad, both having been sentenced in contumacy to death.