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   recusant

   /ˈrɛkjʊz(ə)nt/

   noun

   • 1. a person who refuses to submit to an authority or to comply with a regulation.
   • ▪ a person who refused to attend services of the Church of England: "support for the exiled King was greatest among Catholic recusants"

   adjective

   • 1. of or denoting a recusant.

   Word Origin mid 16th century: from Latin recusant- ‘refusing’, from the verb recusare (see recuse).

   Derivatives

   • 1. recusance noun
   • 2. recusancy noun

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2. • • recusant noun re·​cu·​santˈre-kyə-zənt ri-ˈkyü- Synonyms of recusant 1 : an English Roman Catholic of the time from about 1570 to 1791 who refused to attend services of the Church of England and thereby committed a statutory offense
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   Why were recusant Catholics called Catholics?

   • Recusant Catholics, as they were called because they refused to swear the government oaths, risked and sacrificed their wealth, their comfort, their futures, their very lives. The work of the missionary priests, Jesuit and secular, inspired even greater devotion among the laity.

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   Who holds the estate of a recusant convict?

   • The heir of a Recusant convict being sixteen years old shall hold the estate, so as he take the Oath in the Term next after the death of his Ances or.; Otherwise onely from such time as he shal take the Oath.

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   What happened to the recusant laity?

   • The recusant laity continued to suffer heavy fines, imprisonment, and martyrdom as they protected and aided the missionary priests. Men like Richard Gwyn, Swithun Wells, and John Rigby and women like Anne Line, Margaret Ward, and Margaret Clitherow offered their lives for Jesus and His Church.

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4. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › recusancyRecusancy - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

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   Jul 14, 2024 · Definitions of recusancy. noun. refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England. see more. see less.

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   6 days ago · Recusant Catholics, as they were called because they refused to swear the government oaths, risked and sacrificed their wealth, their comfort, their futures, their very lives. The work of the missionary priests, Jesuit and secular, inspired even greater devotion among the laity.

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   4 days ago · The Test Acts were a series of penal laws originating in Restoration England, passed by the Parliament of England, that served as a religious test for public office and imposed various civil disabilities on Catholics and nonconformist Protestants . The underlying principle was that only people taking communion in the established Church of ...

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   Jun 29, 2024 · A recusant (the original French term means ‘one who refuses’) was someone, whether Catholic or Protestant Dissenter, who refused to conform to the rites of the Church of England and ...

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   Jul 9, 2024 · June 1657: An Act for convicting, discovering and repressing of Popish Recusants. Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1911. This free content was digitised by double rekeying. Public Domain. Citation:

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   2 days ago · The persecution of 1581–1592 changed the nature of Catholicism in England. The seminary priests were dependent on the gentry families of southern England. As the older generation of recusant priests died out, Catholicism collapsed among the lower classes in the north, west and in Wales.