recusant in English
noun
1
a person who refuses to submit to an authority or to comply with a regulation.
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.
adjective
1
of or denoting a recusant.
His ravishing portrait of the young English recusant nun Elizabeth Throckmorton (c. 1729; Washington, NG) is a case in point.
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