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- noun Plural form of
recusant .
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Examples
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If I called the recusants forsworn and perjured, thinkest thou the pure in Heaven charged my soul with a sin?
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Italian zampogna, Asiatic zambonja. fall down -- that the recusants might be the more readily detected.
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He engaged in controversies both with the "recusants" and with the Puritans.
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The sanguinary laws against seminary priests and "recusants" were enforced with the greatest severity after the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot.
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Oath of Supremacy were called "recusants" and were guilty of high treason.
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The Stonors were among those described as respectable "recusants," people who refused to attend Church of England services; respectable because they did not join in any plots to overthrow the monarchy.
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The Stonors were among those described as respectable "recusants," people who refused to attend Church of England services; respectable because they did not join in any plots to overthrow the monarchy.
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The Stonors were among those described as respectable "recusants," people who refused to attend Church of England services; respectable because they did not join in any plots to overthrow the monarchy.
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The Stonors were among those described as respectable "recusants," people who refused to attend Church of England services; respectable because they did not join in any plots to overthrow the monarchy.
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The Stonors were among those described as respectable "recusants," people who refused to attend Church of England services; respectable because they did not join in any plots to overthrow the monarchy.
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