recusant

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/ˈɹɛkjʊzənt/ English

Definitions

noun

Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.

adjective

Pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy

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Synonyms

papist nonconformist unorthodox dissentient disobedient popish refusant refusenik nonintrusionist recalcitrant rejecter refuser party opponent dissenter anticatholic renunciant reversionist

Associated

elizabethan gentry martyr convict emancipation catholicism fines gunpowder jesuit talbot catholic reformation

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