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Recusancy

noun

Refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England.

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"Recusancy" Quotes from Famous Books

... charm of ease, so there is also a special charm in the signs of discovery, of effort and contention towards a due end, as so often with Flaubert himself—in the style which has [32] been pliant, as only obstinate, durable metal can be, to the inherent perplexities and recusancy of ...

— Appreciations, with an Essay on Style • Walter Horatio Pater

... that much cruelty was exercised during his imprisonment; for it is said to have occasioned his death, which occurred in the Tower a few months afterwards. The High Commission court now began to take cognisance of what was called recusancy, or the refusal to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy; it also encouraged informations against such as refrained from joining in the established worship; and numerous professors of the old religion, both ecclesiastics and laity, ...

— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin

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