Both Uses of
recusant
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- She soon knew thus much of the recusant's appearance.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- On examining her heart it appeared beyond measure strange that the subject of which the season might have been supposed suggestive—the event in the hall at Boldwood's—was not agitating her at all; but instead, an agonizing conviction that everybody abjured her—for what she could not tell—and that Oak was the ringleader of the recusants.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(recusant) history: a Catholic who broke the law by refusing to attend services of the Church of England between the 16th and 18th centuries