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
Its object is not the moral education of the recusant individuals.
From Liberalism by Hobhouse, L. T. (Leonard Trelawny)
Jenings, Alice, wife of Richard; a recusant xlii.
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by Gerard, John
Rec′ūsance, Rec′ūsancy, state of being a recusant: nonconformity, or its tenets; Recusā′tion.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
