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recusant

noun as in dissident

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The recusant States must be whipped back into submission to the autocrats that would direct their affairs.

When recovered the second time, he was whipped as well as fed—another lesson which only made the stubborn recusant run the faster.

The recusant was one Walter Simpson, the Vulcan of the parish.

He was summoned to the bar of the House as a Popish recusant.

Uledi returned from his expedition against a recusant officer at Kituntu, bringing with him a spoil of ten women.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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