recusant

See also: récusant

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin recūsans, recūsāntis, from I refuse, decline; I object to; I protest. See recuse.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛkjʊzənt/

Noun

recusant (plural recusants)

(historical) Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.

Synonyms

papist

Related terms

Adjective

recusant

pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy

Anagrams

Centaurs, Etruscan, arsecunt, centaurs, rescuant, traunces, uncrates, untraces

Latin

Verb

recūsant

third-person plural present active indicative of recūsō

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