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recusant::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dissentient |
| Derivation | recusancy |
recusant::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | nonconformist |
| Type of | objector, dissenter, contestant, protester, dissident |
| Has types | heretic, beatnik, bohemian, enfant terrible, beat, maverick, rebel |
recusant::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | recusancy, recuse |
the recusant electors...cooperated in electing a new Senate.
Examples of recusant
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Stonor Park, another country mansion, has belonged to the recusant Stonor family for centuries.
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Some scholars claim that there is evidence that members of Shakespeare's family were recusant Catholics.
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He persecuted recusant Catholic families in the area, including William Shakespeare's maternal relatives.
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Unlike one fellow resident, who doesn't step outside once in three months, Francis will not be a recusant.
From the guardian.co.uk
His father died when Fawkes was eight years old, after which his mother married a recusant Catholic.
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It also includes recusant works and early printed works.
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He was prosecuted for being a Popish recusant.
From the gazetteherald.co.uk
The honest but flawed recusant John Brigge becomes the focus of suspicion in a taut, Crucible-style fable of human weakness and malice.
From the independent.co.uk
The Hall has the finest surviving series of priest-holes anywhere in the country and during Elizabethan times offered shelter to many recusant priests.
From the kidderminstershuttle.co.uk
- Dissentient: (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England
- Nonconformist: someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct
- Refusing to submit to authority; "the recusant electors...cooperated in electing a new Senate"- Mary W.Williams
- In the history of England and Wales, the Recusancy referred to those who refused to attend Anglican services. Initially the term referred to those who remained within the Roman Catholic Church. ...
- Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries; anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation; pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy
- (recusancy) Obstinate refusal or opposition; The state of being a recusant; nonconformity
- One separated from the Church of England.
