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

pertaining to a recusant or to recusancy

plural of recusant

(transitive) To refuse or reject (a judge); to declare that the judge shall not try the case or is disqualified from acting.

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

An act of recusing; removing oneself from a decision/judgment because of a conflict of interest.

plural of recusal

plural of recusation

(obsolete) refusal / (law) The act of disqualifying a judge or jury in a specific case on the grounds of possible partiality or prejudice.

present participle of recuse