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Meanings of recusant in English

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inconformista

Someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct.

      inconformista

      (Of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England.

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            Recusant.

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                    1
                    Then better off than he were savages, who could destroy their recusant idols.
                    Idolatry: A Romance
                    2
                    At first the warder's idea was, that he was seized by the recusant Sylvan.
                    Waverley Novels — Volume 12
                    3
                    Six guineas is the heavy penalty inflicted upon a recusant who declines service altogether.
                    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 / Volume 17, New Series, A...
                    4
                    The very fact that it originally belonged to the recusant Gerard family is sufficient evidence.
                    Secret Chambers and Hiding Places / Historic, Romantic, & Legend...
                    5
                    The recusant noblemen took the oath which he proposed.
                    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. / Continued fro...
                    6
                    She soon knew thus much of the recusant's appearance.
                    Far from the Madding Crowd
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                    The recusant minority have been heavily censured by our recent historians for consenting to these attainders.
                    A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the E...
                    8
                    About the same time Lords Shaftesbury, Russell, and Westminster Hall, as indictable, being a Popish recusant.
                    Excellent Women
                    9
                    Here in Church of England Virginia was a "popish recusant!"
                    Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Begin...
                    10
                    The recusant States must be whipped back into submission to the autocrats that would direct their affairs.
                    Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War
                    11
                    And then he added, "The Council will not find, at all events, that I am recusant."
                    Sunrise
                    12
                    Uledi returned from his expedition against a recusant officer at Kituntu, bringing with him a spoil of ten women.
                    The Discovery of the Source of the Nile
                    13
                    The Beni Suleim, whose more powerful allies, the Ghatafan, had given Mahomet much trouble in the past, were still recusant.
                    Mahomet, Founder of Islam
                    14
                    Once more her host was a recusant, but this time it would have been too shameless to proceed against him.
                    Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and li...
                    15
                    The recusant was marched to the river-side, and placed in the stern of the boat, which lay fastened in the ice.
                    Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest
                    16
                    The primitive man in him rose up as Pope of nature and excommunicated me as a creature recusant to her functions.
                    The Pool in the Desert
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                    Recusant through the time