different between misbeliever vs recusant

English

Etymology

From Middle English misbilevere, equivalent to misbelieve +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /m?sb??liv?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?sb??li?v?/

Noun

misbeliever (plural misbelievers)

1. Someone who holds a bad or wrong belief; a heretic, an unbeliever.
   • , II.12:

     We are placed in the country […] where we feare the menaces wherewith she threatneth all mis-beleevers, or follow her promises.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin rec?sans, rec?s?ntis, from rec?s? (“I refuse, decline; I object to; I protest”). See recuse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???kj?z?nt/

Noun

recusant (plural recusants)

1. (historical) Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
2. Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation.

Synonyms

• papist

Related terms

• recuse
• recusancy
• refusenik

Translations

Adjective

recusant

1. pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy
   • 1981, Donald Kagan, The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition:

     Still, to disobey a direct order in the field is no small matter in any circumstances, and especially in Sparta. The recusant captains must have known how dangerous their defiance was to them, yet they risked it.

Anagrams

• Centaurs, Etruscan, arsecunt, centaurs, near cuts, rescuant, traunces, uncrates, untraces

Latin

Verb

rec?sant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of rec?s?