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Definition of Recusants

Recusant
Recusant Re*cu"sant, n. 1. One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion. The last rebellious recusants among the European family of nations. --De Quincey. 2. (Eng. Hist.) A person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion; as, a Roman Catholic recusant, who acknowledges the supremacy of the pope. --Brande & C. 3. One who refuses communion with the Church of England; a nonconformist. All that are recusants of holy rites. --Holyday.

Meaning of Recusants from wikipedia

- Catholics, under the title "An Act for restraining Popish recusants". It defined "Popish recusants" as those convicted for not repairing to some Church, Chapel...
- of residence delivers the card of the Recusant authorizing the wearing of this insignia. The National Recusants' Group (French: Groupement National des...
- bias, and the recusant fines continued, but not at the higher levels imposed on English Catholics by the Popish Recusants Act 1605. Recusant fines were collected...
- local community including clandestine M****, and visited other Catholic recusants who were imprisoned in jail for their beliefs. She dispensed charity to...
- eligible for public employment, and the severe penalties pronounced against recusants, whether Catholic or nonconformist, were affirmations of this principle...
- The Popish Recusants Act 1605 (3 Jas. 1. c. 4) was an act of the Parliament of England which quickly followed the Gunpowder Plot of the same year, an...
- government forced members of the pre-Reformation Catholic Church known as recusants to go underground and s**** academic training in Catholic Europe, where...
- about 20 years in prison for recusancy, and its headmaster, John Pulleyn, came from a family of noted Yorkshire recusants, the Pulleyns of Blubberhouses...
- The Popish Recusants Act 1592 (35 Eliz. 1. c. 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England. It was one of many acts imposed by the 8th Parliament of Elizabeth...
- version of the 1552 prayer book) compulsory, though the penalties for recusancy, or failure to attend and conform, were not extreme. From the start of...