recusant

• While engaged in the irksome duty of arresting the recusant, he was equally busy in granting written protections to those who subscribed frankly to the conditions of the treaty. —  The Life of Francis Marion
• He had opposed Lecompton, become a party recusant, and been declared a party apostate. —  Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2
• No Catholic recusant was permitted to practise surgery, physic, or law; to act as judge, clerk, or officer of any court or corporation; or perform the office of administrator, executor, or guardian. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
• Moreover, every recusant was outlawed; his house might be broken open; his books and furniture destroyed; and his horses and arms taken from him. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
• There can be no scruple on canonical grounds; and if there be hesitation in obeying the Lady Mallerden's orders, (provided she finally takes up her mind to deliver the same,) I would not answer for the recusant's life, no, not for an hour But wherefore in such secrecy, with such haste?" —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844

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