Usually means: Refuser of authority, especially religious.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. recusant: Merriam-Webster.com
  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: Free Dictionary
  18. recusant: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. recusant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. recusant: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. recusant: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recusant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  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

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