recusant

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.