Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the Roman Catholics in England who incurred legal and social penalties in the 1500s and afterward for refusing to attend services of the Church of England.
- noun A dissenter; a nonconformist.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Obstinate in refusal; specifically, in English history, refusing to attend divine service in Anglican churches, or to acknowledge the ecclesiastical supremacy of the crown.
- noun One obstinate in refusing; one who will not conform to general opinion or practice.
- noun Specifically, in English history, one who refused to attend divine worship in Anglican churches, or to acknowledge the ecclesiastical supremacy of the crown.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Obstinate in refusal; specifically, in English history, refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in the churc, or to conform to the established rites of the church.
- noun One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion.
- noun (Eng. Hist.) A person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion.
- noun One who refuses communion with the Church of England; a nonconformist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries
- noun anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation
- adjective pertaining to a recusant or to
recusancy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England
- adjective refusing to submit to authority
- noun someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct
Etymologies
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Examples
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Haman being an Amalekite, one of a doomed and accursed race, was, doubtless, another element in the refusal; and on learning that the recusant was a Jew, whose nonconformity was grounded on religious scruples, the magnitude of the affront appeared so much the greater, as the example of Mordecai would be imitated by all his compatriots.
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"recusant," yet was High Sheriff of his county in 1589.
It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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I have often had an interest in the English recusant families, and recently I came across, quite by accident, the Constable family of Everingham who were one of the families that remained Catholic after the English reformation.
The Constable Family of Everingham and the Catholic Chapel of Ss. Mary and Everilda 2009
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I am a recusant transportation economist and regional planner, displaced from England by the abolition of the Greater London Council and a dislike of Thatcherism.
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I am a recusant transportation economist and regional planner, displaced from England by the abolition of the Greater London Council and a dislike of Thatcherism.
Port of Vancouver Container Trade 2009 « Stephen Rees's blog 2010
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At the heart is Byrd's Mass for Five Voices, dating from the 1590s when he was a Catholic recusant, paired with Palestrina's richly woven motet Tu es Petrus, written for Rome and sounding slightly pallid and earthbound here.
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I am a recusant transportation economist and regional planner, displaced from England by the abolition of the Greater London Council and a dislike of Thatcherism.
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I am a recusant transportation economist and regional planner, displaced from England by the abolition of the Greater London Council and a dislike of Thatcherism.
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I am a recusant transportation economist and regional planner, displaced from England by the abolition of the Greater London Council and a dislike of Thatcherism.
‘Climategate’ inquiry largely clears scientists « Stephen Rees's blog 2010
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I am a recusant transportation economist and regional planner, displaced from England by the abolition of the Greater London Council and a dislike of Thatcherism.
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