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noun - someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct
noun - one who refuses to accept established authority
RECUSANTS - 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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Plural form of recusant. |
a person who refuses to submit to an authority or to comply with a regulation. |
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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against "Popish recusants".The "1558 Recusancy Acts" began during the reign of Elizabeth I, and while temporarily repealed during the Interregnum (16491660), remained on the statute books till 1888.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 |