recusant

Borrowed from Latin recūsans, recūsāntis, from recūsō (“I refuse, decline; I object to; I protest”). See recuse.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛkjʊzənt/

recusant (plural recusants)

1. (historical) Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the 16th and early 19th centuries.

   Synonym: Dissenter

   Hypernyms: dissenter, nonconformist

2. Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.

   Near-synonyms: defier, dissenter, iconoclast, maverick, nonconformist, rebel, refusenik, renegade

• recuse
• recusancy

recusant

1. pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy
   • 1981, Donald Kagan, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition:

     Still, to disobey a direct order in the field is no small matter in any circumstances, and especially in Sparta. The recusant captains must have known how dangerous their defiance was to them, yet they risked it.

• Centaurs, Etruscan, arsecunt, centaurs, near cuts, rescuant, traunces, uncrates, untraces

recūsant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of recūsō

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