Definition of "recusants" [recusants]

• Plural form of recusant. (noun)

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• "If I called the recusants forsworn and perjured, thinkest thou the pure in Heaven charged my soul with a sin?"
• "Italian zampogna, Asiatic zambonja. fall down -- that the recusants might be the more readily detected."
• "He engaged in controversies both with the "recusants" and with the Puritans."