different between papist vs recusant

English

Etymology

From Middle French papiste, from Latin p?pa (“pope”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pe?p.?st/
• Rhymes: -e?p?st

Noun

papist (plural papists)

1. (religious slur, Christianity) A Roman Catholic, whose loyalties are seen to be with the papacy in Rome.

Usage notes

• Used by some Protestants.

Synonyms

• Romist

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

papist (comparative more papist, superlative most papist)

1. (religious slur, Christianity) The quality of being a papist.

Translations

See also

• Roman Catholicism
• Reformation

Romanian

Etymology

From French papiste.

Noun

papist m (plural papi?ti, feminine equivalent papist?)

1. papist

Declension

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?