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RECUSANT
recusant
(adjective) refusing to submit to authority; “the recusant electors...cooperated in electing a new Senate”- Mary W.Williams
dissentient, recusant
(adjective) (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England
nonconformist, recusant
(noun) someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
recusant (plural recusants)
(historical) Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.
Synonyms
• papist
Adjective
recusant
pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy
Anagrams
• Centaurs, Etruscan, arsecunt, centaurs, near cuts, rescuant, traunces, uncrates, untraces
Source: Wiktionary
Re*cu"sant (-zat; 277), a.Etym: [L. recusans, -antis, p.pr. of recure to refuse, to oject to; pref. re- re + causa a cause, pretext: cf. F. récusant. See Cause, and cf. Ruse.]
Definition: 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; as, a recusant lord. It stated him to have placed his son in the household of the Countess of Derby, a recusant papist. Sir W. Scott.
Re*cu"sant, n.
1. One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion. The last rebellious recusants among the European family of nations. De Quincey.
2. (Eng. Hist.)
Definition: A person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion; as, a Roman Catholic recusant, who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope. Brande & C.
3. One who refuses communion with the Church of England; a nonconformist. All that are recusants of holy rites. Holyday.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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