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Recusant   Listen
noun
Recusant  n.  
1.
One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion. "The last rebellious recusants among the European family of nations."
2.
(Eng. Hist.) A person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion; as, a Roman Catholic recusant, who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope.
3.
One who refuses communion with the Church of England; a nonconformist. "All that are recusants of holy rites."





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"Recusant" Quotes from Famous Books



... sealed in slumber. In this work, which seemed good in their eyes, the State Assemblies and Conventions and Committees of Safety joined heart and hand with Congress. Tender-laws were tried, and the relentless hunt of creditor after debtor became a flight of the recusant creditor from the debtor eager to wipe out his responsibility for gold or silver with a ream or two of paper. Limitation of prices was tried, and produced its natural results,—discontent, insufficient supplies, heavy losses. Threatening resolves were renewed, and fell powerless. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various
... read; and Sir Geoffrey Peveril heard, with some composure, the first part of it, which stated him to have placed his son in the household of the Countess of Derby, a recusant Papist, for the purpose of aiding the horrible and bloodthirsty Popish Plot—with having had arms and ammunition concealed in his house—and with receiving a blank commission from the Lord Stafford, who had suffered death on account of the Plot. ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott


Words linked to "Recusant" :   nonconformist, enfant terrible, unorthodox, contestant, dissident, rebel, objector, beat, recuse, beatnik, dissentient, heretic, maverick, dissenter, conformist, bohemian


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