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Definition of recusant in English: recusantnoun ˈrɛkjʊz(ə)nt 1A person who refuses to submit to an authority or to comply with a regulation. 拒绝屈从权威或遵守规则的人,反抗者 Example sentencesExamples - No doubt some people did feel this way, especially astronomers, computists, and recusants.
- The Lancashire desolation and remoteness was a refuge for recusants - awkward people who were stubborn and resilient, and whose best expression was not in word but in action and a capacity to come back for more persecution.
- At the very least, then, Fowler and her family were actively involved in a Midlands network of recusants.
- From 307 he used the death penalty only rarely, but mutilated recusants and sent them to the mines; outside Egypt there were relatively few executions.
- We cannot install any of our circle among the young lady's confidantes; Salisbury suspects them all as recusants, and advises Lord Harington whom to keep and whom to expel.
Synonyms dissenter, objector, protester, disputant - 1.1historical A person who refused to attend services of the Church of England.
〈主史〉拒绝参加英国国教礼拜仪式者 support for the exiled King was greatest among Catholic recusants Example sentencesExamples - More specifically, a recusant was someone who refused to attend Protestant church services.
- Another 300 Catholic priests, missionaries, and recusants were tried and executed in England for religious beliefs judged as treason between 1535 and 1680.
- They were forbidden to hear Mass, forced instead to attend Anglican services, with steep fines for those recusants who persistently refused.
- However, the government did not wish only to tighten measures against Roman Catholic missionary priests and lay recusants who refused to attend their parish churches.
- Like every English person of his time, Shakespeare descended from Catholic antecedents, and like many he numbered recusants among his extended family.
Synonyms nonconformist, protestant, freethinker
adjective ˈrɛkjʊz(ə)nt Of or denoting a recusant. 不屈从权威的;不遵守规则的 Example sentencesExamples - A group of recusant players under Cholmeley's patronage toured in Yorkshire from 1606 to at least 1616 using only printed play-texts for their repertory.
- Having had some narrow escapes the priest was eventually arrested as a recusant priest and was tried by revolutionary Court.
- His early acting career probably began with performances before a network of recusant gentry in the Warwickshire area where he served as a resident player under the pseudonym Shakeshaft.
- Indeed, the law has already been abused by some university administrators who now have the power to punish recusant colleagues.
- The hand of co-editor Richard Wilson is clearly felt in the speculation on Shakespeare's possible residency in the recusant Catholic communities of the province during his so-called ‘lost years’.
- A recusant Catholic would not be the possessor of that right.
- Elizabeth Petre, nearly fifteen years of age, was engaged to marry twenty-two year-old William Sheldon, scion of the wealthy recusant family that introduced tapestry-making to England.
- After the excommunication of Elizabeth I in 1570, the purpose of legislation changed from securing royal supremacy to defeating the new recusant missionary campaign.
- Later still, I learnt that it was quite likely he'd been born Catholic, from a recusant family.
- He was a fixture in the liturgical life of the recusant safe-houses, the great country homes of Catholic aristocrats, which served as 16 th-century catacombs riddled with secret chambers to hide fugitive priests.
- The poetry of this Staffordshire circle embraces the non-court, recusant and social milieu of the first Lord Aston, his children, their spouses and friends.
- We still have no clear idea of the extent of underground compositions written for use in the recusant community, but Byrd's masses would have been part of this campaign.
- His ravishing portrait of the young English recusant nun Elizabeth Throckmorton (c. 1729; Washington, NG) is a case in point.
- Monmouthshire was indeed the strongest recusant area in the kingdom, apart from Lancashire.
Synonyms unorthodox, heretical, dissenting, dissident, blasphemous, nonconformist, apostate, freethinking, iconoclastic, schismatic, rebellious, renegade, separatist, sectarian, revisionist
Derivativesnoun ˈrɛkjʊz(ə)ns noun However his continuing recusancy could only have increased the tense relationship with authority which his seemingly seditious plays had instigated. Example sentencesExamples - Educated at home by Catholic tutors, Donne went at the age of 11 to Hart Hall, Oxford (now Hertford College), favoured by Catholics because it had no chapel, so that recusancy attracted less notice.
- It is noticeable that Catholic recusancy was generally stronger in eastern than western Wales; it may have been easier to maintain conservative dissent in the less effectively structured marcher region.
- For the religious group that went in a few years from dominance to recusancy, to being a persecuted minority in its own country, life must have seemed full of sudden reversals and paradoxes.
- In 1606, Shakespeare's daughter Susanna was cited on suspicion of recusancy, but the charge was dropped.
OriginMid 16th century: from Latin recusant- 'refusing', from the verb recusare (see recuse). Definition of recusant in US English: recusantnoun 1A person who refuses to submit to an authority or to comply with a regulation. 拒绝屈从权威或遵守规则的人,反抗者 Example sentencesExamples - No doubt some people did feel this way, especially astronomers, computists, and recusants.
- The Lancashire desolation and remoteness was a refuge for recusants - awkward people who were stubborn and resilient, and whose best expression was not in word but in action and a capacity to come back for more persecution.
- From 307 he used the death penalty only rarely, but mutilated recusants and sent them to the mines; outside Egypt there were relatively few executions.
- We cannot install any of our circle among the young lady's confidantes; Salisbury suspects them all as recusants, and advises Lord Harington whom to keep and whom to expel.
- At the very least, then, Fowler and her family were actively involved in a Midlands network of recusants.
Synonyms dissenter, objector, protester, disputant - 1.1historical A Roman Catholic in England who refused to attend services of the Church of England.
〈主史〉拒绝参加英国国教礼拜仪式者 support for the exiled King was greatest among Catholic recusants Example sentencesExamples - More specifically, a recusant was someone who refused to attend Protestant church services.
- However, the government did not wish only to tighten measures against Roman Catholic missionary priests and lay recusants who refused to attend their parish churches.
- Another 300 Catholic priests, missionaries, and recusants were tried and executed in England for religious beliefs judged as treason between 1535 and 1680.
- Like every English person of his time, Shakespeare descended from Catholic antecedents, and like many he numbered recusants among his extended family.
- They were forbidden to hear Mass, forced instead to attend Anglican services, with steep fines for those recusants who persistently refused.
Synonyms nonconformist, protestant, freethinker
adjective Of or denoting a recusant. 不屈从权威的;不遵守规则的 Example sentencesExamples - Indeed, the law has already been abused by some university administrators who now have the power to punish recusant colleagues.
- Later still, I learnt that it was quite likely he'd been born Catholic, from a recusant family.
- His early acting career probably began with performances before a network of recusant gentry in the Warwickshire area where he served as a resident player under the pseudonym Shakeshaft.
- His ravishing portrait of the young English recusant nun Elizabeth Throckmorton (c. 1729; Washington, NG) is a case in point.
- He was a fixture in the liturgical life of the recusant safe-houses, the great country homes of Catholic aristocrats, which served as 16 th-century catacombs riddled with secret chambers to hide fugitive priests.
- A group of recusant players under Cholmeley's patronage toured in Yorkshire from 1606 to at least 1616 using only printed play-texts for their repertory.
- The hand of co-editor Richard Wilson is clearly felt in the speculation on Shakespeare's possible residency in the recusant Catholic communities of the province during his so-called ‘lost years’.
- We still have no clear idea of the extent of underground compositions written for use in the recusant community, but Byrd's masses would have been part of this campaign.
- Elizabeth Petre, nearly fifteen years of age, was engaged to marry twenty-two year-old William Sheldon, scion of the wealthy recusant family that introduced tapestry-making to England.
- After the excommunication of Elizabeth I in 1570, the purpose of legislation changed from securing royal supremacy to defeating the new recusant missionary campaign.
- Monmouthshire was indeed the strongest recusant area in the kingdom, apart from Lancashire.
- Having had some narrow escapes the priest was eventually arrested as a recusant priest and was tried by revolutionary Court.
- A recusant Catholic would not be the possessor of that right.
- The poetry of this Staffordshire circle embraces the non-court, recusant and social milieu of the first Lord Aston, his children, their spouses and friends.
Synonyms unorthodox, heretical, dissenting, dissident, blasphemous, nonconformist, apostate, freethinking, iconoclastic, schismatic, rebellious, renegade, separatist, sectarian, revisionist
OriginMid 16th century: from Latin recusant- ‘refusing’, from the verb recusare (see recuse). |