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recusant - use in sentences
Possessives
- land: Suggestions on the form of grants to be issued by the King, of the profits of recusants ' lands.
Converse of object
- convict: Draft of the oath offered by the convicted recusants.
- imprison: Out of the 58 recusants imprisoned in the " Blockhouses " 40 died.
- know: She was a daughter of Charles Selby, a well known recusant and Jacobite supporter.
Adjective modifier
- popish: In the same year, John Wright and his wife, and servant Thomas Haward and his wife, were convicted as Popish recusants.
- Elizabethan: NS 110 The Lancashire Elizabethan recusants ( by J. Stanley Leatherbarrow, 1947 ).
- Catholic: Additional Justices of the Peace were appointed in all areas of England who produced Recusancy lists which supplied the government details of Catholic recusants.
Modifies a noun
- family: The fear of catholic plots against the King meant that many recusant families were under observation by the government.
- history: This vade mecum is intended for the students of recusant history.
- community: Perhaps the two composers intended them for use by the recusant Catholic community.
- priest: Persons was probably the recusant priest most " wanted " by the Government.
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