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- Dictionaryrecusant/ˈrɛkjʊz(ə)nt/
noun
- 1. a person who refuses to submit to an authority or to comply with a regulation.
adjective
- 1. of or denoting a recusant.
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- 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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5 days ago · The Constable-Maxwell family who reside at Bosworth Hall, a stately home in the heart of rural Leicestershire in central England, have safeguarded these sacred objects, testament to England’s rich Catholic heritage that survived the almost 300-year recusant period of persecution following the Reformation.
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.
1 day ago · Ethics - Wikipedia. Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. The main branches of ethics include normative ethics, applied ethics, and metaethics .
5 days ago · ROMAN CATHOLICISM. Among the numerous recusants who occur in Walsall from the early 1580s (fn. 1) were several prominent local families.
3 days ago · The more likely biblical judgment on Judas is that he died in sin, despairing of God’s mercy on God’s terms. One is free to hope for a different outcome for him, but while the story of Judas and his possible repentance does generate sympathy and hope for him, the judgment belongs to God.
4 days ago · In 1603 there were said to be 40 recusant Puritans (including Joseph Baynham) at Westbury. There was a Quaker meeting in the parish by 1670, and most of the 12 nonconformists recorded in 1676 presumably belonged to it. The Quakers registered a meeting-house at Elton in 1690, and acquired a burial ground there in 1724.
