recusant

IPA: rɪkjˈuzʌnt

(historical) Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the 16th and early 19th centuries.
Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.

Examples of "recusant" in Sentences

The kid is known as a recusant.
She came from a recusant family.
We don't want a recusant as a President.
His mother's family are an old recusant family.
They were a prominent local recusant Catholic family.
"recusant," yet was High Sheriff of his county in 1589.
Some branches of the Scarisbrick family remained recusant.
William Shakespeare was born to a Catholic recusant family.
I am a recusant transportation economist and regional planner, displaced from England by the abolition of the Greater London Council and a dislike of Thatcherism.
At the heart is Byrd's Mass for Five Voices, dating from the 1590s when he was a Catholic recusant, paired with Palestrina's richly woven motet Tu es Petrus, written for Rome and sounding slightly pallid and earthbound here.
I have often had an interest in the English recusant families, and recently I came across, quite by accident, the Constable family of Everingham who were one of the families that remained Catholic after the English reformation.
Haman being an Amalekite, one of a doomed and accursed race, was, doubtless, another element in the refusal; and on learning that the recusant was a Jew, whose nonconformity was grounded on religious scruples, the magnitude of the affront appeared so much the greater, as the example of Mordecai would be imitated by all his compatriots.