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Word of the Day Contumacious

June 6, 2017 by GµårÐïåñ
WordContumacious
Syllablecon·tu·ma·cious
Sound[ˌkänt(y)o͝oˈmāSHəs]
Adjective

    Legal, archaic
  1. (especially of a defendant’s behavior) stubbornly or willfully disobedient to authority; stubbornly disobedient : rebellious:
    “She was warned that her contumacious conduct would not be tolerated.”
    “the judge threatened to charge the contumacious witness with contempt of court”


    balky, contrary, disobedient, defiant, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, restive, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful (or wilful)

    amenable, biddable, compliant, conformable, docile, obedient, ruly, submissive, tractable; (near antonyms) acquiescent, agreeable, amiable, cooperative, deferential, obliging; yielding; behaved, disciplined, well-bred; courteous, polite, respectful; kowtowing, obsequious, servile, slavish, subservient; decorous, mannerly, orderly, proper; controllable, governable, manageable, trainable

    Legal contexts are one area where you might encounter this fancy word for “rebellious” or “insubordinate” – and the link between contumacious and the law goes back to Latin. The Latin adjective contumax means “rebellious,” or, in specific cases, “showing contempt of court.” Contumacious is related to contumely, meaning “harsh language or treatment arising from haughtiness and contempt.” Both contumacious and contumely are thought to ultimately come from the Latin verb tumēre, meaning “to swell” or “to be proud.”


late 16th cent.: from Latin contumax, contumac- (perhaps from con- ‘with’ + tumere ‘to swell’) + -ious.
see contumacy
First Known Use: 1583


contumacious (adjective)
contumaciously (adverb)


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Word of the Day Caprice

May 30, 2017 by GµårÐïåñ
WordCaprice
Syllableca·price
Sound[kəˈprēs]
Noun

  1. a sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behavior; a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action; a sudden usually unpredictable condition, change, or series of changes; a disposition to do things impulsively:
    “her caprices had made his life impossible”
    “a land where men were ruled by law and not by caprice”
    “policy changes that seem to be motivated by nothing more than caprice”
    “the caprices of the weather”
    “a preference for democratic endeavor over authoritarian caprice”


    whim · whimsy · vagary · fancy · fad · quirk · eccentricity · foible · fickleness · changeableness · volatility · capriciousness · unpredictability; bee, crank, freak, humor, kink, maggot, megrim, notion, vagrancy, (also whimsey)

    [near antonyms] levelheadedness, practicality, reasonability, reasonableness; fastness, firmness, fixedness, immovability, immovableness, immutability, inflexibility, invariability; changelessness, constancy, stability, steadfastness, steadiness

    … Montana’s “Durum Triangle,” where the caprice of microclimates has led farmers to complain not of floods but of drought. —Florence Williams, New Republic, 16 Aug. 1999

    But Castro has his army and his secret police and a reputation for ferocious caprice, and so he can make a whole people dance to his dementias. —Jack Beatty, Atlantic, January 1987

    I’m allowing about ten days between here and the U.S.A. (that may be too much or too little, depending on the caprice of the Italian mails). —James Wright, letter, 28 May 1979

    the caprices of the weather

    Employees have complained of being at the mercy of the manager’s every whim and caprice.

    policy changes that seem to be motivated by nothing more than caprice

    In tandem with a winsome chorus of Mooncats—slinky, musical creatures—the two canines meditate on fate, geopolitical caprice, and the vagaries of animal and human consciousness. —The New Yorker, “The Offending Gesture”, 9 Jan. 2017

    Even the rare good things that happen to Amy and Jordan are unfair caprices of fate; the only real way to cope with powerlessness in the face of disaster, Beyer suggests, is to giggle at its absurdity. —douglas wolk, New York Times, “Horror: Joyce Carol Oates’s ‘The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror,’ and More JUNE 1, 2016”, 1 June 2016

    CapriceAs far as nightclubs go, there isn’t a place that’s more Greek than Caprice, an Astoria hot-spot which has been around for 15 years. —margarita bertsos, CNT, “My Big Fat Greek New York”, 25 Mar. 2016

    No more relying on the fleeting kindness of Christian princes or the caprice of Ottoman viziers. —jeffrey goldberg, The Atlantic, “Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?”, 19 Nov. 2015

    I would be guided only by my merest whim, caprice, or appetite. —jeffrey steingarten, Vogue, “Why the Cast-Iron Skillet Is the Only Kitchen Tool You Need”, 21 Apr. 2014

    The first post-Fleming Bond novel, Colonel Sun, was by the 007 superfan Kingsley Amis, who (under the pseudonym Robert Markham) gleefully submitted himself to the caprices of the Fleming style, with its stern limits and sudden, lurid inflations. —james parker, The Atlantic, “The Inner Life of James Bond”, 19 Feb. 2014

    With a full power of removal, the President will be more likely to spare unworthy officers through fear than to displace the meritorious through caprice or passion. —charles p. pierce, Esquire, “Your Evening Jemmy”, 12 Sep. 2012


  2. Music
  3. another term for capriccio.

mid 17th cent.: from French, from Italian (see capriccio).
French, from Italian capriccio caprice, shudder, perhaps from capo head (from Latin caput) + riccio hedgehog, from Latin ericius — more at head, urchin
First Known Use: 1667


caprice (noun)
caprices (plural noune)


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