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noun
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(historical) someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries
- anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation
adjective
- pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy
Etymology: From Latin recusare "refuse".
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