recusant
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin recusare ‘refuse’.
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- IPA: /ˈrɛkjʊzənt/
[edit] 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
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[edit] Adjective
recusant
- pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy
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[edit] Verb
recūsant
- third-person plural present active indicative of recūsō
