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noun - refusal to submit to established authority
RECUSANCY - Recusancy was the state of those who refused to attend Anglican services during the history of England and Wales and of Ireland; these individuals we...
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Holding top of crosier, horribly curse any refusal to attend church |
Nonconformist attitude will spell out curacy's end shortly |
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Mar 28 2009 The Times - Cryptic |
Aug 17 2007 The Times - Cryptic |
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refusal to submit to established authority originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England |
Obstinate refusal or opposition. |
The state of being a recusant nonconformity. |
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Recusancy was the state of those who refused to attend Anglican services during the history of England and Wales and of Ireland; these individuals were known as recusants. The term, which derives ultimately from the Latin recusare (to refuse or make an objection) was first used to refer to those who remained loyal to the pope and the Roman Catholic Church and who did not attend Church of England services, with a 1593 statute determining the penalties against "Popish recusants".The "1558 Recusancy Acts" began during the reign of Elizabeth I, and while temporarily repealed during the Interregnum (16491660), remained on the statute books till 1888. They imposed various types of punishment on those who did not participate in Anglican religious activity, such as fines, property confiscation, and imprisonment. The suspension under Oliver Cromwell was mainly intended to give relief to nonconforming Protestants rather than to Catholics, to whom some explicit restrictions still apply through th |