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# contumely

«contumely» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **insulting, rude and scornful treatment** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

insulting, rude and scornful treatment [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/contumely/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Hezekiah's messengers use it for a day of disgrace, when Assyria insulted God and Jerusalem. Interpretation: Tradition reads Hezekiah's distress and prayer as trust in God, who saved the city.

### examples

- And they said unto him: 'Thus saith Hezekiah: This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. (Prophets 2KI.19.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/contumely/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «contumely» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/contumely/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.