recusant
Example Sentences
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Philips, an English recusant, settled in Brussels and knew Brueghel and Rubens well, his music celebrated in artistic circles as an engine of the Counter-Reformation.
From The Guardian • Jan. 27, 2013
Unlike one fellow resident, who doesn't step outside once in three months, Francis will not be a recusant.
From The Guardian • Nov. 22, 2012
He has taken Henry of Navarre, the recusant Huguenot, the false wavering Catholic, to his counsels lately.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various
Congress should have sufficient respect for this commission and for itself to provide a way to punish such recusant witnesses who are willing to degrade themselves in so base a manner.
From The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by Larrabee, William
Instead, the recusant tore the letter into shreds, and flung them at his feet; defying me, Sir John, King, and all!
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
Vocabulary lists containing recusant
