Usually means: Refuser of authority, especially religious.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. recusant: Merriam-Webster
  2. recusant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. recusant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. recusant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. recusant: Vocabulary.com
  6. recusant: Wordnik
  7. recusant: Wiktionary
  8. recusant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. recusant: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. recusant: Dictionary.com
  11. Recusant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Recusant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. recusant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. recusant: Rhymezone
  15. Recusant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. recusant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. recusant: FreeDictionary.org
  18. recusant: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. recusant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. recusant: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. recusant: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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  3. recusant: Legal dictionary

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  1. recusant: Encyclopedia

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  1. recusant: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (recusant)

▸ noun:  (historical) Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the 16th and early 19th centuries.
▸ noun:  Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.
▸ adjective:  pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy

Similar:
nonconformist, unorthodox, disobedient, dissentient, refusant, refusenik, nonintrusionist, recalcitrant, rejecter, refuser, more...

Opposite:
compliant, obedient, submissive, acquiescent

Types:
Baptist, Puritan, Quaker, Lutheran, Catholic, Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian, more...

Adjectives:
popish, obstinate, only, single, sensual, rigid, english, notorious, stubborn, irish, non

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Similar:
nonconformist, unorthodox, disobedient, dissentient, refusant, refusenik, nonintrusionist, recalcitrant, rejecter, refuser, more...

Opposite:
compliant, obedient, submissive, acquiescent

Types:
Baptist, Puritan, Quaker, Lutheran, Catholic, Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian, more...

Adjectives:
popish, obstinate, only, single, sensual, rigid, english, notorious, stubborn, irish, non



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