recusant

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Philips, an English recusant, settled in Brussels and knew Brueghel and Rubens well, his music celebrated in artistic circles as an engine of the Counter-Reformation.

From The Guardian • Jan. 27, 2013

Unlike one fellow resident, who doesn't step outside once in three months, Francis will not be a recusant.

From The Guardian • Nov. 22, 2012

Never before had a recusant daughter braved her to her face.

From Not Like Other Girls by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

Instead, the recusant tore the letter into shreds, and flung them at his feet; defying me, Sir John, King, and all!

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

The Foreign Person was suffered to return, and thenceforward was addressed as Father Ruddlestone, as though he had some licence bearing him harmless from the penalties and præmunires which then weighed upon recusant persons.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by Sala, George Augustus