recusancy
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Refusal -- N. refusal, rejection; noncompliance, incompliance†; denial; declining &c. v.; declension; declinature†; peremptory refusal, flat refusal, point blank refusal; repulse, rebuff; discountenance. recusancy, abnegation, protest, disclaimer; dissent &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
In July 1603 the fines for recusancy were remitted.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
Early in 1604, all Jesuits and seminary priests were banished; the recusancy fines and arrears were soon after stringently exacted, and many Roman Catholic families almost reduced to beggary.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
He was educated at Oxford, where, at the age of twenty, he was imprisoned for recusancy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
They can prove nothing against me—except, indeed, my recusancy; and that they have known this long time back.
From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson
