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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



... Mac Cormac, king of the Deisi, with his army and followers, met one another at Indeoin and they made still more strong on the people the bond of Christian obligation. The king we have already mentioned, scil.:—Ledban, the recusant to the Christian name, was rejected of all and he came to nothing, leaving no knowledge (memory) of his history, as is written of the enemies of the faith:—"Their memory perisheth like a sound" [Psalm 9:7]. Moreover Declan and Fergal ...
— Lives of SS. Declan and Mochuda • Anonymous
... was searched and his papers examined in his absence; and the result, though inconclusive, was unsatisfactory.[389] The religious orders again (especially the monks of such houses as had been implicated with the Nun of Kent) were openly recusant. At the convent at Sion, near Richmond, a certain Father Ricot preached as he was commanded, "but he made this addition, that he which commanded him to preach should discharge his conscience: and as soon," it was said, "as ...
— History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. • James Anthony Froude


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


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