How To Use Recusant In A Sentence
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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.
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No doubt some people did feel this way, especially astronomers, computists, and recusants.
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After the excommunication of Elizabeth I in 1570, the purpose of legislation changed from securing royal supremacy to defeating the new recusant missionary campaign.
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Even the 5 percent of the nation who made up the Catholic recusants succumbed to an intellectual onslaught led by Anglican divines.
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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
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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.
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Monmouthshire was indeed the strongest recusant area in the kingdom, apart from Lancashire.
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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.
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Another is an idealization of the recusant gentry and their houses.
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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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However, the government did not wish only to tighten measures against Roman Catholic missionary priests and lay recusants who refused to attend their parish churches.
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Indeed, the law has already been abused by some university administrators who now have the power to punish recusant colleagues.
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Elizabeth Petre, nearly fifteen years of age, was engaged to marry twenty-two year-old William Sheldon, scion of the wealthy recusant family that introduced tapestry-making to England.
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I come from a recusant family and was educated at Catholic schools.
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The short-lived and disastrous attempt by James II to restore catholicism to England put paid to any restoration of relations with the papacy for all but the small recusant catholic community.
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His ravishing portrait of the young English recusant nun Elizabeth Throckmorton (c. 1729; Washington, NG) is a case in point.
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At the very least, then, Fowler and her family were actively involved in a Midlands network of recusants.
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The hand of co-editor Richard Wilson is clearly felt in the speculation on Shakespeare's possible residency in the recusant Catholic communities of the province during his so-called ‘lost years’.
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He has taken over a pub a mile away from the Tontine in the recusant village of Osmotherley, high on the scarp of the moors.
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A group of recusant players under Cholmeley's patronage toured in Yorkshire from 1606 to at least 1616 using only printed play-texts for their repertory.
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More specifically, a recusant was someone who refused to attend Protestant church services.
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His early acting career probably began with performances before a network of recusant gentry in the Warwickshire area where he served as a resident player under the pseudonym Shakeshaft.
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the recusant electors...cooperated in electing a new Senate
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To be sure, the laws against recusants were not uniformly enforced; papistry in favourites and friends of the king was winked at, and the rich noblemen, who were able to pay fines, did not suffer much.
English Travellers of the Renaissance
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A recusant Catholic would not be the possessor of that right.
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Another 300 Catholic priests, missionaries, and recusants were tried and executed in England for religious beliefs judged as treason between 1535 and 1680.
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Later still, I learnt that it was quite likely he'd been born Catholic, from a recusant family.
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Belmont, for him, is a great recusant house where "mercy ... redeems the mercenariness of the Protestant market" in Venice, and Portia, as the epitome of "matriarchal Catholicism," presides in private over the rites and festivals of the Roman Church while providing a safe haven for her coreligionists.
The One and Only
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Having had some narrow escapes the priest was eventually arrested as a recusant priest and was tried by revolutionary Court.
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Oh, and, raises hand, I think I've had a crush on Recusant for weeks but only now just realized it with aliquod pro facile vitae.
A reply
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He was a fixture in the liturgical life of the recusant safe-houses, the great country homes of Catholic aristocrats, which served as 16 th-century catacombs riddled with secret chambers to hide fugitive priests.
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At last, their dispute came near to an open declaration of hostilities, the incensed episcopalian bestowing on the recusants the whole thunders of the commination, and receiving from them, in return, the denunciations of a Calvinistic excommunication.
Old Mortality
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The poetry of this Staffordshire circle embraces the non-court, recusant and social milieu of the first Lord Aston, his children, their spouses and friends.
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Like every English person of his time, Shakespeare descended from Catholic antecedents, and like many he numbered recusants among his extended family.
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Finally, there was a pair of crotchety knights, Sir William Fawnt and the popish recusant Sir Henry Shirley, who sought to bring down Huntingdon by levying false charges of fraud against him.
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We still have no clear idea of the extent of underground compositions written for use in the recusant community, but Byrd's masses would have been part of this campaign.
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Another is an idealization of the recusant gentry and their houses.
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