Definition for Recusancy:

• Refusal to obey or submit to authority, especially that of a state church.

Synonyms for Recusancy:

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • recusancy.
  •dissidence (noun)
  • dissidence.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • direct action,
  • heterodoxy,
  • iconoclasm,
  • lawlessness,
  • nonacceptance,
  • nonconformity,
  • strangeness,
  • unconventionality,
  • unorthodoxy,
  • Bohemianism,
  • nonagreement,
  • non-compliance,
  • Contumaciousness,
  • Mutinousness,
  • non-conformity,
  • nonconsent,
  • recusance,
  • transgressiveness,
  • heterodoxies,
  • non-acceptance,
  • non-consent,
  • unorthodoxies.

Antonyms for Recusancy:

• n.

  • nonconformity
    compliance, obedience, conformity, approval, permission, endorsement, ratification, agreement, allowance, acceptance, harmony, usualness, concurrence, peace, observance, normality, sanction, orthodoxy.

Recusancy Sentence Examples:

• She has been our heroine, and we must see her through her immediate troubles before we can leave her; but it may be as well to mention here, that although many threats had been uttered against her, not only by Mr. Camperdown and the other attorneys, but even by the judge himself, no punishment at all was inflicted upon her in regard to her recusancy, nor was any attempt made to punish her.

• But when the war commenced, Mujrim, who doubtless wished to stand by his brethren the Hawazim, began to show signs of recusancy in putting off the day of departure to the end of September.

Homophones for Recusancy:

• recognize, reeking, rosiness, resinous, resonance, Rosa Chinensis, reorganize, richness, rising, recognise, roughneck, rhesus monkey, racemose, roguishness, reorganise, reechoing, raising, razing, rashness, regaining, rock snake, reigning, rushing, Recommence, rock music, Rockiness, raisin cookie, reaching, rejoicing, raciness, ricinus, recency, rakishness, reasoning, roughness, raging, razzing, racking, rose moss, riskiness, regency, racing, rousing, racing gig, rigging, reckoning, Russian Mayonnaise.

Hyponym for Recusancy:

• n.

  • act
    direct action.