recusant
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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
"I'll see if you come back into my cellar again, old fellow," she exclaimed, before breakfast one morning after the recusant batrachian had been transported the night before.
From When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by Stephens, C. A. (Charles Asbury)
Nevertheless, this morning, when I went to see them, I found her busily preparing some nourishing soup; which, when I asked her, she confessed was destined for the recusant monk who had become a carpenter.
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle
Jenings, Alice, wife of Richard; a recusant xlii.
From The Condition of Catholics Under James I. by Gerard, John
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