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
Congress should have sufficient respect for this commission and for itself to provide a way to punish such recusant witnesses who are willing to degrade themselves in so base a manner.
From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee
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
Nevertheless, this morning, when I went to see them, I found her busily preparing some nourishing soup; which, when I asked her, she confessed was destined for the recusant monk who had become a carpenter.
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles
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