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plural recusants
(historical) Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the 16th and early 19th centuries.
Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation. examples
pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy quotations examples
Still, to disobey a direct order in the field is no small matter in any circumstances, and especially in Sparta. The recusant captains must have known how dangerous their defiance was to them, yet they risked it.
1981, Donald Kagan, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition