a person who refuses to submit to an authority or to comply with a regulation 拒绝屈从权威或遵守规则的人,反抗者 ■(chiefly historical)a person who refused to attend services of the Church of England (主史)拒绝参加英国国教礼拜仪式者
adjective
of or denoting a recusant 不屈从权威的;不遵守规则的
派生 recusance noun recusancy noun 语源
mid 16th cent.: from Latin recusant- 'refusing', from the verb recusare (see recuse)