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Contempt of court

which has power to punish for such offence by committal. Contempts are either direct, which only insult or resist the powers of the Court, or the persons of the judges who preside there; or consequential, which, without

Solid

Having the constituent parts so compact or so firmly adhering as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies having a fixed form hard firm compact opposed to fluid and

Solidity

opposed to weakness or instability the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others hardness massiveness

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Sea wall

A wall or embankment to resist encroachments of the sea

Pinnacle

or spire and the like Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch etc

Resistless

Having no power to resist making no opposition

Resigned

Submissive yielding not disposed to resist or murmur

Repugn

To fight against to oppose to resist

Reluctate

To struggle against anything to resist to oppose

Oppugn

To fight against to attack to be in conflict with to oppose to resist

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Contempt of court

which has power to punish for such offence by committal. Contempts are either direct, which only insult or resist the powers of the Court, or the persons of the judges who preside there; or consequential, which, without

Solid

Having the constituent parts so compact or so firmly adhering as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies having a fixed form hard firm compact opposed to fluid and

Solidity

opposed to weakness or instability the primary quality or affection of matter by which its particles exclude or resist all others hardness massiveness

Keep your definitions linked to case research

Sea wall

A wall or embankment to resist encroachments of the sea

Pinnacle

or spire and the like Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch etc

Resistless

Having no power to resist making no opposition

Resigned

Submissive yielding not disposed to resist or murmur

Repugn

To fight against to oppose to resist

Reluctate

To struggle against anything to resist to oppose

Oppugn

To fight against to attack to be in conflict with to oppose to resist

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