1. recusant - Noun
2. recusant - Adjective
3. recusant - Adjective Satellite
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.
One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion.
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.
One who refuses communion with the Church of England; a nonconformist.
Source: Webster's dictionarythe recusant electors...cooperated in electing a new Senate Source: Internet
Cooper, pp. 260, 263–265; Hutchinson, p. 246 Gilbert's voyage was largely financed by recusant Catholics and Walsingham favoured the scheme as a potential means of removing Catholics from England by encouraging emigration to the New World. Source: Internet
Examines the abbeys rebuilt after 1850 (by benefactors among the Catholic aristocracy and recusant squirearchy), mainly Benedictine but including a Cistercian Abbey at Mount St. Bernard (by Pugin) and a Carthusian Charterhouse in Sussex. Source: Internet
Everyone was to be "adjudged a Papist" who refused this oath, and the consequent penalties began with the confiscation of two thirds of the recusant 's goods, and went on to deprive him of almost every civic right. Source: Internet
Sensing his greater priority was Marrakesh, where recusant Almohad sheikhs had rallied behind Yahya, another son of al-Nasir, al-Adil paid little attention to this little band of misfits. Source: Internet
Modern usage As far as the term is used in the present day, recusant applies to the descendants of Roman Catholic British gentry and peerage families. Source: Internet