Definition of Recusancies

1. recusancy [n] - See also: recusancy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recusancies

recurvation
recurvations
recurve
recurve-billed bushbird
recurve bow
recurved
recurves
recurving
recurviroster
recurvirostral
recurvities
recurvity
recurvous
recusal
recusals
recusancies (current term)
recusancy
recusant
recusants
recusation
recusations
recusative
recuse
recused
recuses
recusing
recussion
recut
recuts
recutting

Literary usage of Recusancies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dodd's Church History of England from the Commencement of the Sixteenth by Charles Dodd, Hugh Tootell, Mark Aloysius Tierney (1843)
"It recited four kinds of recusancies only, capable of his majesty's clemency ; not so much to include these, as to exclude many other crimes, ..."

2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1826)
"The heretical recusancies of the age were very formally expounded, and a dutiful obedience to the church in general, and to tbt missionary preachers in ..."

3. The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt.: In Thirteen Parts by Edward Coke, John Henry Thomas, John Farquhar Fraser, Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (1826)
"73.120. should have authority by force of that act to enquire, hear, and *26'2S!7- 3C determine of all recusancies and offences, as well for not receiv- ..."

4. Illustrations of Irish History and Topography, Mainly of the Seventeenth by Caesar Litton Falkiner, Fynes Moryson, Josias Bodley, Luke Gernon, William Brereton, Albert Jouvin (1904)
"... and I gave some help to appease their variance by joining with them in assistance of the Mayor and sheriffs to inquire of recusancies, and by an inquest ..."

5. Illustrations of Irish History and Topography: Mainly of the Seventeenth Century by Caesar Litton Falkiner, Fynes Moryson, Josias Bodley, Luke Gernon, William Brereton, Albert Jouvin (1904)
"... and I gave some help to appease their variance by joining with them in assistance of the Mayor and sheriffs to inquire of recusancies, and by an inquest ..."

6. Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records by Great Britain Public Record Office (1887)
"Oxon and Wilts, sequestered for the recusancies of Humphry Joiner, Matthew Cheriton, Robt. Bowne, and John Bishop. Grant, in consideration of 2,0002., ..."

7. Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne by William Drogo Montagu Manchester (1864)
"349 recusancies, sale of, i. 305. The consequent voluntary spy system, 305 Recusants at the beginning of the seventeenth century, i. ..."

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