recusant
Meaningto reject
Common meaning: person who refuses to comply, especially with an established religious authority
- recusantto rejectSkeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), p. 496 · scan
Journey through time
- Latinrecusare‘to reject’source
- Frenchmeaning shiftsto reject → refusingrécusant‘refusing’source
- Englishmeaning shiftsrefusing → person who refuses to comply, especially with an established religious authorityrecusant‘person who refuses to comply, especially with an established religious authority’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Latin recusare ‘to reject’.
Roots
- recusare Latin “to refuse”
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