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

"Peradventure," answered Polly, "his own words should be too good food for a recusant in her majesty's prisons."

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

On account of their smaller number, too, they are less in a condition to declare a recusant colleague in disgrace.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

All of Galileo is in one phrase, when poor, imprisoned, tortured and mocked, heretic and recusant, he was able to murmur to those who bade him recant: 'Still she moves.'

From A Novelist on Novels by George, Walter Lionel