recusant

[ UK /ɹɪkjˈuːsənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. refusing to submit to authority
    the recusant electors...cooperated in electing a new Senate
  2. (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England
NOUN
  1. someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct
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How To Use recusant In A Sentence

  • The Lancashire desolation and remoteness was a refuge for recusants - awkward people who were stubborn and resilient, and whose best expression was not in word but in action and a capacity to come back for more persecution.
  • No doubt some people did feel this way, especially astronomers, computists, and recusants.
  • After the excommunication of Elizabeth I in 1570, the purpose of legislation changed from securing royal supremacy to defeating the new recusant missionary campaign.
  • Even the 5 percent of the nation who made up the Catholic recusants succumbed to an intellectual onslaught led by Anglican divines.
  • But since his day there have been many martyrs, whose only crime was 'harbouring' Christians, or heretics, or recusant priests, or Covenanters. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
  • Corthell concludes that Donne constructs a ‘recusant subject of satire,’ a subject, that is, whose equivocalness is both a response to and a production of the discontinuous discursive formations available to the Elizabethan satirist.
  • Monmouthshire was indeed the strongest recusant area in the kingdom, apart from Lancashire.
  • We cannot install any of our circle among the young lady's confidantes; Salisbury suspects them all as recusants, and advises Lord Harington whom to keep and whom to expel.
  • Another is an idealization of the recusant gentry and their houses. The Times Literary Supplement
  • They were forbidden to hear Mass, forced instead to attend Anglican services, with steep fines for those recusants who persistently refused.
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