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Recusant

noun
1.
Someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct.  Synonym: nonconformist.





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"Recusant" Quotes from Famous Books



... pictures, and rooms of ornaments; the leaving a house we have so long called our home is altogether melancholy enough. I am glad Lady S. does not mind it, and yet I wonder, too. She insists on my remaining till Wednesday, not knowing what I suffer. Meanwhile, to make my recusant spirit do penance, I have set to work to clear away papers and pack them for my journey. What a strange medley of thoughts such a task produces! There lie letters which made the heart throb when received, now lifeless and uninteresting—as are perhaps their ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott


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


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