recusant
Meanings
Noun
- Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
- Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.
Adjective
- pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy
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Origin
- Borrowed from Latin recūsans, from recūsō. See recuse.
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