recusant

  1. Noun.  (historical) someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
  2. Noun.  anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.
  3. Adjective.  pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy.

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