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Definition of Recusants
1. recusant [n] - See also: recusant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recusants
Literary usage of Recusants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The first statute in which the term "Popish Recusants" is used is 35 Eliz. c.
2, "An Act for restraining Popish Recusants to some certain place of abode", ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The first statute in which the term "Popish Recusants" is used is 35 Eliz. c.
2, "An Act for restraining Popish Recusants to some certain place of ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The first statute in which the term "Popish Recusants" is used is 35 Eliz. c.
2, "An Act for restraining Popish Recusants to some certain place of abode", ..."
4. Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquess of by Robert Stewart Castlereagh, Charles William Vane Londonderry (1849)
"By the Act intituled an Act for appointing Commissioners to inquire of the Estates
of certain Traitors and of Popish Recusants, and of Estates given to ..."
5. Documents Illustrative of English Church History by Henry Gee, William John Hardy (1896)
"Proviso for popish recusants, &c. Forfeitures under the Act defined. This Act
only to continue to end of next session. 1693. case should or may be recovered ..."
6. Documents Illustrative of English Church History by Henry Gee, William John Hardy (1896)
"Proviso for popish recusants, Ac. Forfeitures under the Act denned. ... statute made
in the twenty-eighth year of her majesty's reign touching recusants. ..."
7. The History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Restoration by Francis Charles Montague (1907)
"Recusants to whom the fine of £20 a month was not crushing were reached by ...
Recusants were forced to take the sacrament once a year in the parish church ..."
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