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recusance

recusance is the alternative form of recusancy.

Meaning of recusancy

Noun

recusancy (countable and uncountable, plural recusancies)

  1. Obstinate refusal or opposition.
  2. The state of being a recusant; nonconformity.

Forms of recusance

pluralrecusances

Questions about recusance

What is recusance the alternative form of?
Recusance is the alternative form of recusancy.

Words near recusance in the dictionary

  1. recurvoside
  2. recurvous
  3. recusable
  4. recusal
  5. recusals
  6. recusance
  7. recusances
  8. recusancies
  9. recusancy
  10. recusant
  11. recusants

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recusance (page history and authors); recusancy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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