{"id":3190,"date":"2020-04-13T04:45:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T04:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/13\/word-of-the-day-recusant\/"},"modified":"2020-04-13T04:45:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T04:45:20","slug":"word-of-the-day-recusant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/13\/word-of-the-day-recusant\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: Recusant<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Merriam-Webster<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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1<\/span><\/span>: <\/strong>an English Roman Catholic of the time from about 1570 to 1791 who refused to attend services of the Church of England and thereby committed a statutory offense.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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2<\/span><\/span>: <\/strong>one who refuses to accept or obey established authority.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Example<\/a>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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So, like atheists in a theocracy, or recusants in Elizabethan England, we go underground. We are a secret society \u2014 brave rebels against the epidemiocracy. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Merriam-Webster: 1: an English Roman Catholic of the time from about 1570 to 1791 who refused to attend services of the Church of England and thereby committed a statutory offense. 2: one who refuses to accept or obey established authority. Example: So, like atheists in a theocracy, or recusants in Elizabethan England, we go underground. We are … Continue reading “Word of the Day: Recusant<\/i>“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}