of Catholics Refusing to attend services of the Church of England.

synonym: recusant.

Roget 713: discordant; disagreeing etc. v.; out of tune, ajar, on bad terms, dissentient etc. 489; unreconciled, unpacified; contentious etc. 720.    quarrelsome, unpacific^†; gladiatorial, controversial, polemic, disputatious; factious; litigious, litigant; pettifogging.    at odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled.    torn, disunited.    ... show more

Disagreeing, especially with a majority.

synonyms: dissenting, dissident.

Roget 832: discontented; dissatisfied etc. v.; unsatisfied, ungratified; dissident; dissentient etc. 489; malcontent, malcontented, exigent, exacting, hypercritical.    repining etc. v.; regretful etc. 833; down in the mouth etc. (dejected) 837.    in high dudgeon, in a fume, in the sulks, in the dumps, in bad humor; glum, sulky; sour as a crab; soured, sore; out of humor, out of temper.    disappointing etc. v.; unsatisfactory.    frustrated (failure) 732.    ... show more

Roget 489: dissenting etc. v.; negative etc. 536; dissident, dissentient; unconsenting etc. (refusing) 764; non-content, nonjuring^†; protestant, recusant; unconvinced, unconverted.    unavowed, unacknowledged; out of the question.    discontented etc. 832; unwilling etc. 603; extorted.    sectarian, denominational, schismatic; heterodox; intolerant.    ... show more