recusancy
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Refusal -- N. refusal, rejection; noncompliance, incompliance†; denial; declining &c. v.; declension; declinature†; peremptory refusal, flat refusal, point blank refusal; repulse, rebuff; discountenance. recusancy, abnegation, protest, disclaimer; dissent &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
In July 1603 the fines for recusancy were remitted.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
In 1637 he was declared exempt from the recusancy laws by the king’s order, but in 1639 he again petitioned for relief.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various
Would he have wished that she should at once have given herself up without one maidenly scruple, one word of feminine recusancy?
From Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope
Yet, as she went home again with the young man, she put her hand on his arm tentatively, a little bit ashamed, her hand pleaded that he would not hold it against her, her recusancy.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
