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Recusant meaning
Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the 16th and early 19th centuries, whether a Protestant dissident or a Roman Catholic. | Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.
Synonyms of Recusant
Example sentences (7)
After joining Volcano Manor, go to the drawing room to find Recusant Bernahl sitting on a chair.
Everyone was to be "adjudged a Papist" who refused this oath, and the consequent penalties began with the confiscation of two thirds of the recusant 's goods, and went on to deprive him of almost every civic right.
Examines the abbeys rebuilt after 1850 (by benefactors among the Catholic aristocracy and recusant squirearchy), mainly Benedictine but including a Cistercian Abbey at Mount St. Bernard (by Pugin) and a Carthusian Charterhouse in Sussex.
Modern usage As far as the term is used in the present day, recusant applies to the descendants of Roman Catholic British gentry and peerage families.
Sensing his greater priority was Marrakesh, where recusant Almohad sheikhs had rallied behind Yahya, another son of al-Nasir, al-Adil paid little attention to this little band of misfits.
Shakespeare's mother, Mary Arden, descended from a staunch Catholic family, and his father, John Shakespeare, was listed as a Catholic recusant.
The Acton (also known as Dalberg-Acton and Lyon-Dalberg-Acton) family is another well-known recusant family.