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Recusant

//ˈɹɛkjʊzənt// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy

    "Still, to disobey a direct order in the field is no small matter in any circumstances, and especially in Sparta. The recusant captains must have known how dangerous their defiance was to them, yet they risked it."

Adjective
  1. 1
    refusing to submit to authority wordnet
  2. 2
    (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the 16th and early 19th centuries, whether a Protestant dissident or a Roman Catholic. historical

    "Near-synonyms: (all sometimes synonymous) Dissenter, Nonconformist, Free Churchman; autem cackler (archaic cant)"

  2. 2
    someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct wordnet
  3. 3
    Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.

    "Near-synonyms: refuser, defier, dissenter, objector, protester, iconoclast, maverick, nonconformist, rebel, refusenik, renegade"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin recūsans, recūsāntis, from recūsō (“I refuse, decline; I object to; I protest”). See recuse.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin recūsans, recūsāntis, from recūsō (“I refuse, decline; I object to; I protest”). See recuse.

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