recusant

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin recusare ‘refuse’.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /ˈrɛkjʊzənt/

Noun [edit]

recusant (plural recusants)

  1. (historical) someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries
  2. anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation

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Adjective [edit]

recusant

  1. pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy

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Latin [edit]

Verb [edit]

recūsant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of recūsō
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