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Recusancy

noun
1.
Refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England.





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"Recusancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... her successors adhered for more than a hundred years. No layman was brought to the bar or to the block under its provisions. The oppression of the Catholic gentry was limited to an exaction, more or less rigorous at different times, of the fines for recusancy or non-attendance at public worship. The work of bloodshed was reserved wholly for priests, and under Elizabeth this work was done with a ruthless energy which for the moment crushed the Catholic reaction. ...
— History of the English People - Volume 4 (of 8) • John Richard Green


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