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Example sentences for "recusant"

Lexicographically close words:
recurs; recurso; recurved; recurving; recusancy; recusants; recut; recutting; redacted; redaction
  1. All other recusant females must renounce Popery or quit the realm; and if they did not leave in a reasonable time, or afterwards returned, they could be put to death.

  2. It was from April till June, 1514, that Pedrarias was on his way, and it was not long before the new governor with his imposing array of strength brought the recusant Balboa to trial, out of which he emerged burdened with heavy fines.

  3. Accordingly the recusant soldier sought to offer a better bargain to the purchaser by the makeweight of something that Clinton particularly longed for, and this was the possession of the Hudson Valley through its chief military posts.

  4. Popish Recusant marrying otherwise than according to the Forms of the Church of England shall forfeit £100.

  5. Every Popish Recusant must be buried in Church or Church yard according to the Ecclesiastical Laws, or his Executor or Administrator forfeits £20.

  6. Among those were the following: Recusant Convict above 16 must go to his place of Abode and not remove 5 miles without license or otherwise abjure the Realm.

  7. To replace the recusant clergy, a number of ministers, King’s curates, as they were called, had been appointed by the bishops.

  8. The very fact that it originally belonged to the recusant Gerard family is sufficient evidence.

  9. He arrived shortly after the retirement of Agesilaus, while the Arcadians and Eleians were ravaging the lands of the recusant town of Heræa.

  10. The first use made of his victory had been to establish or confirm the ascendency of Thebes both over the recusant Bœotian cities and over the neighboring Phokians and Lokrians, etc.

  11. And the buzz of voices concurred in telling of the recusant pigs who had never developed into sausages, the sheep who had only escaped to be eaten by wolves, the mule whose bones had been found at the bottom of an abyss.

  12. About nine in the evening they left the wood together for the house of Mr. Wolf, a Catholic recusant at Madeley, not far from the Severn; but an accidental alarm lengthened their road, and added to the fatigue of the royal wanderer.

  13. A recusant deity is sometimes neglected or even kicked by way of punishment or to force him to give the desired aid, and a god or a saint is valued and sought after in proportion to his supposed ability to be useful.

  14. A recusant deity was sometimes taunted or insulted by his disappointed worshipers.

  15. The possessors were bound to pay a mark a year for every sixty acres, and the lesser ones besides to take the Oath of Supremacy, and engage to admit no recusant as tenant.

  16. Moreover, every recusant was outlawed; his house might be broken open; his books and furniture destroyed; and his horses and arms taken from him.

  17. Excommunications had been their arms against recusant baron and refractory count; but the Danish Northmen did not care for bell, book, and candle.

  18. The disappointed emperor could only complain to the Pope, and the Pope put the recusant psalmodists in prison.

  19. Congress of recusant Peloponnesian allies at Corinth—the Mantineians join Argos—state of Arcadia—rivalship of Tegea and Mantineia.

  20. The discontent of the recusant Peloponnesian allies was now inducing them to turn their attention towards Argos as a new chief.

  21. He put his faith in a recusant priest--one John Ballard--who goes ruffling about as Captain Fortescue in velvet hose and a silver-laced cloak.

  22. Meanwhile, to make my recusant spirit do penance, I have set to work to clear away papers and pack them for my journey.

  23. On the whole, both for the constitutional principles which they upheld, and the religious proscription which they resisted, the recusant minority in the Irish Parliament of James I.

  24. They not only assumed an independent state, but had sheltered de Braos, Lord of Brecknock, one of the recusant Barons of Wales, and refused to surrender him on the royal summons.

  25. Ireland her "first free Parliament," it is impossible not to entertain a high sense of admiration for the constitutional firmness of the recusant or Catholic party in that assembly.

  26. The recusant minority have been heavily censured by our recent historians for consenting to these attainders.

  27. Moreover, this infamous statute imposes harsh penalties upon every recusant who shall hereafter be "married otherwise than according to the orders of the Church of England by a minister lawfully authorized.

  28. Peradventure," answered Polly, "his own words should be too good food for a recusant in her majesty's prisons.

  29. The recusant noblemen took the oath which he proposed.

  30. They, on the other hand, proceeded to take cognizance of the recusant clergy, until their sovereign ordered them to desist.

  31. That oath is no more binding on your conscience than would have been the ties of marriage had you been wedded by yon recusant Romish priest, Father Checkley, upon whose guilty head the Lord be merciful!

  32. Another renewed point of discussion and disagreement betwixt the King and his ministers, respected the recusant clergy.

  33. In attempting to shelter the emigrants and the recusant churchmen, the King only rendered himself the more immediate object of the popular resentment.

  34. The recusant and exiled priests often found among their former flock the means of concealment and existence, when it was death to administer them.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recusant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    alienated; apostate; breakaway; contrary; demurrer; differing; disagreeing; disobedient; dissenter; dissenting; dissident; froward; heretic; lawless; naughty; nonconforming; objector; obstinate; opposing; rebel; recalcitrant; recusant; refractory; schismatic; schismatical; sectarian; sectary; separatist; underground; undisciplined; undutiful; wayward; willful