Definitions for recusants

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recusants rec·u·sant

Spelling: [rek-yuh-zuh nt, ri-kyoo-z Recusants is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 672 anagrams from letters in recusants (acenrsstu).

Definitions for recusants

noun

1. a person who is recusant.
2. English History. a person, especially a Roman Catholic, who refused to attend the services of the Church of England.

adjective

1. refusing to submit, comply, etc.
2. obstinate in refusal.
3. English History. refusing to attend services of the Church of England.

Origin of recusants

1545-55; Latin recūsant- (stem of recūsāns), present participle of recusāre to demur, object, equivalent to re- re- + -cūsāre, verbal derivative of causa Examples for recusants

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

The recusant children ranged themselves before the teacher, who seemed to think she had now quenched the rebellion.

I bethink me—a Papist priest—a recusant—who was for some time an inmate of the hall.

And then he added, "The Council will not find, at all events, that I am recusant."

Then better off than he were savages, who could destroy their recusant idols.

The disappointed emperor could only complain to the Pope, and the Pope put the recusant psalmodists in prison.

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

Never before had a recusant daughter braved her to her face.

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

Its object is not the moral education of the recusant individuals.