Definitions for recusant
ˈrɛk yə zənt, rɪˈkyu zəntre·cu·sant

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. nonconformist, recusantadjective

   someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct

2. dissentient, recusantadjective

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

3. recusantadjective

   refusing to submit to authority

   "the recusant electors...cooperated in electing a new Senate"- Mary W.Williams

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. recusantnoun

   someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries

2. recusantnoun

   anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation

3. recusantadjective

   pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy

4. Etymology: From Latin recusare ‘refuse’.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Recusantnoun

   One that refuses any terms of communion or society.

   Etymology: recusans, Lat.

   They demand of the lords, that no recusant lord might have a vote in passing that act. Edward Hyde.

   Were all corners ransacked, what a multitude of recusants should we find upon a far differing account from that of conscience! Decay of Piety.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. recusant

   Recusancy (from Latin: recusare, lit. 'to refuse') was the state of those who remained loyal to the Catholic Church and refused to attend Church of England services after the English Reformation.The 1558 Recusancy Acts passed in the reign of Elizabeth I, and temporarily repealed in the Interregnum (1649–1660), remained on the statute books until 1888. They imposed punishments such as fines, property confiscation and imprisonment on recusants. The suspension under Oliver Cromwell was mainly intended to give relief to nonconforming Protestants rather than to Catholics, to whom some restrictions applied into the 1920s, through the Act of Settlement 1701, despite the 1828 Catholic Emancipation.In some cases those adhering to Catholicism faced capital punishment, and some English and Welsh Catholics who were executed in the 16th and 17th centuries have been canonised by the Catholic Church as martyrs of the English Reformation.

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1. recusant

   A recusant is a person who refuses to submit to an authority or comply with a regulation, particularly in the context of refusing to attend services of the Church of England during the 16th to the 18th centuries.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Recusantadjective

   obstinate in refusal; specifically, in English history, refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in the churc, or to conform to the established rites of the church; as, a recusant lord

2. Recusantnoun

   one who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion

3. Recusantnoun

   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

4. Recusantnoun

   one who refuses communion with the Church of England; a nonconformist

5. Etymology: [L. recusans, -antis, p. pr. of recure to refuse, to oject to; pref. re- re + causa a cause, pretext: cf. F. rcusant. See Cause, and cf. Ruse.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Recusant

   rek′ū-zant, or rē-kū′zant, adj. obstinate in refusal, esp. to comply with the Anglican ritual.—n. a nonconformist: one who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the sovereign in religious matters.—ns. Rec′ūsance, Rec′ūsancy, state of being a recusant: nonconformity, or its tenets; Recusā′tion.—adj. Recū′sative. [Fr.,—L. recusans, pr.p. of recusāre—re-, against, causa, a cause.]

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1. uncrates

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3. centaurs

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of recusant in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

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   The numerical value of recusant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=recusant
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Recusant
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=recusant
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recusant
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recusant
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=recusant