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Recusant vs Backslider - What's the difference?

recusant | backslider | Related terms |

Recusant is a related term of backslider.


As a verb recusant

is .

As a noun backslider is

a recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.

recusant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries
  • anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation

    • Synonyms

    * papist

    Related terms

    * recusancy * refusenik

    Adjective

    (head)
  • pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy

    • Anagrams

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    backslider

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Judgement of Dungara’, Black and White , Folio Society 2004, vol. 1, p. 382:
    • At night the Red Elephant Tusk boomed and groaned among the hills, and the faithful waked and said: ‘The God of Things as They Are matures revenge against the backsliders .’
    She married him thinking to change his ways, and for a while he got religion, but he was ever a backslider ; she soon began finding bottles stashed about the house.