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n. Obstinate refusal or opposition.

n. The state of being a recusant; nonconformity.

n. The state of being recusant; nonconformity.

n. Obstinate refusal or opposition.

n. The state of being a recusant.

n. The tenets of the recusants, or adherence to those tenets.

n. refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England

"The High Commission court now began to take cognisance of what was called recusancy, or the refusal to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy; it also encouraged informations against such as refrained from joining in the established worship; and numerous professors of the old religion, both ecclesiastics and laity, were summoned on one account or other before this tribunal."

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recusance    recusant    recuse   

nonconformity   

as-yet-unidentified    redubbing    infighting    court-martial    vice-regal