recusancy
Example Sentences
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Continued recusancy was to be punished by placing filth outside the culprit's door on feast-days.
From Life in the Medieval University by Robert S. Rait
The discovery of Watson's conspiracy—generally known as the "Bye" or "Surprise" Plot—so alarmed the king that he lost no time in making known his intention to exact no longer the recusancy fines.
From London and the Kingdom - Volume II by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe
It will be well, therefore, to quote one singular example to show how this recusancy was encountered.
From Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by William Francis Dawson
Yet, as she went home again with the young man, she put her hand on his arm tentatively, a little bit ashamed, her hand pleaded that he would not hold it against her, her recusancy.
From The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Daring in design, precipitate and violent in execution, and going to the very extremity of the most rigid recusancy, it was his ambition to place himself at the head of the presbyterian interest.
From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Sir Walter Scott
