recusant
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recusant
- /ˈɹɛkjʊzənt/
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin recūsans, recūsāntis, from recūsō (“to refuse, decline; to object to; to protest”). See recuse.
noun recusants
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Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the 16th and early 19th centuries, whether a Protestant dissident or a Roman Catholic.
Near-synonyms: (all sometimes synonymous) Dissenter, Nonconformist, free churchman; autem cackler (archaic cant)
Similar: Dissenter, Nonconformist, free churchman, autem cackler
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Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.
Near-synonyms: refuser, defier, dissenter, objector, protester, iconoclast, maverick, nonconformist, rebel, refusenik, renegade
Similar: refuser, defier, dissenter, objector, protester, iconoclast, maverick, nonconformist, rebel, refusenik, renegade
adjective
- Pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy. […] to set forth the commission to avenge his father’s death laid upon him by Apollo, together with the warning of the god that if he prove recusant to his duty of vengeance, the Furies of his father will blast his mind and waste his body.
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