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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