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

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

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

The remaining voters continued recusant; but as no question was taken on the other side, the vote may be said to have been a very decided one, if not positively unanimous.

From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore