adj
Meaning 1
Pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
recusant
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/ˈɹɛkjʊzənt/
noun
Meaning 2
Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the 16th and early 19th centuries, whether a Protestant dissident or a Roman Catholic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Examples
- Near-synonyms: (all sometimes synonymous) Dissenter, Nonconformist, free churchman; autem cackler (archaic cant)
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Dissenter, Nonconformist, free churchman, autem cackler
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dissenter, dissident, nonconformist, Reformer
noun
Meaning 3
Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonyms: refuser, defier, dissenter, objector, protester, iconoclast, maverick, nonconformist, rebel, refusenik, renegade
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: refuser, defier, dissenter, objector, protester, iconoclast, maverick, nonconformist, rebel, refusenik, renegade
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
refusing to submit to authority- Mary W.Williams
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the recusant electors...cooperated in electing a new Senate
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
(of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dissentient
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nonconformist
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: dissenter, dissident, protester, objector, contestant
Narrower terms: beatnik, beat, bohemian, enfant terrible, heretic, maverick, rebel
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin recūsans, recūsāntis, from recūsō (“to refuse, decline; to object to; to protest”). See recuse.
Across languages
Translations
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: niskoittelija — one refusing to submit to authority
Real reading context