recusant

/ɹɪkjˈuːsənt/

Recusant

someone who is reluctant to submit to an authority

antonyms : conformist

recusant

refusing to submit to authority

(of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England

Examples

1. He attended St. Peter’s School in York, which had a lot of recusant Catholic teachers and students.

2. It may have even been Lord Monteagle himself, writing a fake letter after hearing letters through the Catholic recusant grapevine.

3. James temporarily stopped collecting fees that recusant Catholics were required to pay for skipping Protestant service.

4. A recusant Catholic man named Thomas Percy was a cousin of Henry Percy, the 9th Earl of Northumberland.