recusant

/หˆษนษ›kjสŠzษ™nt/

IPA: /R IH0 K Y UW1 Z AH0 N T/

noun
  1. 1

    Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

  2. 2

    Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.

Synonyms

adjective
  1. 1

    Pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recusant