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
He wrote to the minister of France in the United States to lay a formal complaint before Congress against the recusant for insubordination.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
Never before had a recusant daughter braved her to her face.
From Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey
I beseech you, how can you give liberty of conscience to the heretic, and yet refuse liberty of conscience to him that is the conscientious recusant in point of the war?
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
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