recusant

How To Use recusant In A Sentence

• Having had some narrow escapes the priest was eventually arrested as a recusant priest and was tried by revolutionary Court.
• More specifically, a recusant was someone who refused to attend Protestant church services.
• 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.
• the recusant electors...cooperated in electing a new Senate
• To be sure, the laws against recusants were not uniformly enforced; papistry in favourites and friends of the king was winked at, and the rich noblemen, who were able to pay fines, did not suffer much. English Travellers of the Renaissance
• A recusant Catholic would not be the possessor of that right.
• Another 300 Catholic priests, missionaries, and recusants were tried and executed in England for religious beliefs judged as treason between 1535 and 1680.
• Later still, I learnt that it was quite likely he'd been born Catholic, from a recusant family.
• Belmont, for him, is a great recusant house where "mercy ... redeems the mercenariness of the Protestant market" in Venice, and Portia, as the epitome of "matriarchal Catholicism," presides in private over the rites and festivals of the Roman Church while providing a safe haven for her coreligionists. The One and Only
• 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.