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Meaning of recusant

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

recusant

Pronunciation:/ˈɹɛkjʊzənt/

noun

Definitions

  1. Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

  2. Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.

adjective

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recusant

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