Examples of 'recusants' in a sentence
Meaning of "recusants"
recusant: a person who refuses to submit to an authority or comply with a regulation, often in a religious context
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- plural of recusant
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Their home was a centre of hospitality for recusants.
The recusants had been removed from the centre of the stage.
Those who refused to conform were called recusants.
As known recusants the brothers were on several occasions arrested for reasons of national security.
Concerning popish recusants.
These two English Catholic recusants composed sacred polyphony which is unsurpassed in sophistication and interest.
Common informers were encouraged with promises of a third of the fines of all recusants discovered.
Recusants and Royalists.
Both families were Roman Catholic recusants.
By 1593, recusants were restricted to staying within five miles of their homes.
These are times of martyrs, of heroic recusants and crypto catholic.
As bishop, he soon gained a reputation as someone dedicated to seeking out recusants.
Arundel, with much of his family, remained Catholic recusants during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
The consequences of such non-conformity were limited to Popish recusants.
A government list of recusants for March 1588 announces his presence in Derbyshire.
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Meanwhile, German prisons were thronged with the first batches of recusants.
By 1621 there were about forty households of recusants in Midhurst.
