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Meanings of recusant in English
Catalan
inconformista (Of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England.
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Examples for "nonconformist"
Examples for "nonconformist"
1
Major Major's elders disliked him because he was such a flagrant nonconformist.
2
No player better exemplifies this than the exultantly nonconformist guitarist, Derek Bailey.
3
Persecution had created a small measure of tolerance throughout all nonconformist bodies.
4
Nowadays, this nonconformist spirit manifests itself as an unwillingness to follow traffic regulations.
5
NGC 1156 is also a nonconformist in the world of galaxies.
Usage of recusant in English
1
Then better off than he were savages, who could destroy their recusant idols.
2
At first the warder's idea was, that he was seized by the recusant Sylvan.
3
Six guineas is the heavy penalty inflicted upon a recusant who declines service altogether.
4
The very fact that it originally belonged to the recusant Gerard family is sufficient evidence.
5
The recusant noblemen took the oath which he proposed.
6
She soon knew thus much of the recusant's appearance.
7
The recusant minority have been heavily censured by our recent historians for consenting to these attainders.
8
About the same time Lords Shaftesbury, Russell, and Westminster Hall, as indictable, being a Popish recusant.
9
Here in Church of England Virginia was a "popish recusant!"
10
The recusant States must be whipped back into submission to the autocrats that would direct their affairs.
11
And then he added, "The Council will not find, at all events, that I am recusant."
12
Uledi returned from his expedition against a recusant officer at Kituntu, bringing with him a spoil of ten women.
13
The Beni Suleim, whose more powerful allies, the Ghatafan, had given Mahomet much trouble in the past, were still recusant.
14
Once more her host was a recusant, but this time it would have been too shameless to proceed against him.
15
The recusant was marched to the river-side, and placed in the stern of the boat, which lay fastened in the ice.
16
The primitive man in him rose up as Pope of nature and excommunicated me as a creature recusant to her functions.
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