recusant
noun[C]
uk/ˈrek.jʊ.zənt/us/ˈrek.jʊ.zənt/religionspecialized
someone in the past whorefusedto go toChurchofEnglandservices(=religiousceremonies):
（旧时）拒绝参加英格兰国教会礼拜仪式的人Catholicrecusants拒绝参加英格兰国教会礼拜仪式的天主教徒
Unlike many recusantfamilies, the Talbots hadmanagedtoretainmost oftheirlandedestates.与许多拒绝参加英格兰国教会礼拜仪式的家族不同，塔尔博特家族设法保留了大部分的土地财产。
formal
someone whorefusestoobeypeoplewho haveauthority:
拒不服从权威的人politicalrecusants政治反抗者
Religious people: believers & non-believers
- anti-evolution
- anti-evolutionary
- anti-evolutionist
- anti-humanist
- antichrist
- deist
- evolutionist
- faithful
- faithless
- faithlessly
- libertine
- monotheist
- mystic
- non-believer
- non-Christian
- theistic
- unbelief
- unbeliever
- unbelieving
- unconverted
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Religious practices
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