recusancy
AmericanEtymology
Origin of recusancy
First recorded in 1555–65; recus(ant) + -ancy
Example Sentences
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When matters had come to this pass, in 1580, the first penal laws were issued, against recusancy and seditious publications.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
And no recusancy to bear arms can here justify itself on the plea that Christianity forbids all bloodshed or even violence.”
From Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war by Lind-af-Hageby, L. (Lizzy)
And in the Report of the Prison Inspectors to the House of Lords, in 1841, it appeared that, in 1830, ten persons were in prison for recusancy in not attending their parish churches.
From Old Church Lore by Andrews, William
Know, sir, that I have the power to punish sedition as recusancy.
From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne
Early in 1604, all Jesuits and seminary priests were banished; the recusancy fines and arrears were soon after stringently exacted, and many Roman Catholic families almost reduced to beggary.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)
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