Difference between Unorthodox and Recusant

UNORTHODOX vs RECUSANT: NOUN

Anyone refusing to submit to authority or regulation
Someone refusing to attend Church of England services, between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries
One who refuses communion with the Church of England; a nonconformist.
A person who refuses to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in matters of religion.
One who is obstinate in refusal; one standing out stubbornly against general practice or opinion.
One obstinate in refusing; one who will not conform to general opinion or practice.
A dissenter; a nonconformist.
Someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct

Obstinate in refusal; specifically, in English history, refusing to attend divine service in Anglican churches, or to acknowledge the ecclesiastical supremacy of the crown.

Funny, Extraordinary, Orthodox, Dissentient, Recusant, Nonconforming, Dissident, Reformed, Irregular, Nonconformist, Heretical, Heterodox, Maverick, Iconoclastic, Unconventional

Papistic, Romanist, Popishly, Papistry, Prelate, Prelaty, Prelatize, Prelatical, Papist, Recusancy, Popish, Disobedient, Nonconformist, Dissentient, Unorthodox

Funny, Extraordinary, Orthodox, Recusant, Dissentient, Nonconforming, Dissident, Reformed, Irregular, Nonconformist, Heretical, Heterodox, Maverick, Iconoclastic, Unconventional

Prelateship, Papistic, Romanist, Popishly, Papistry, Prelate, Prelaty, Prelatize, Prelatical, Papist, Popish, Unorthodox, Nonconformist, Dissentient, Disobedient

Monmouthshire man, son of Morgan Lewis, a Protestant member of a recusant family, and Margaret Prichard, a Catholic.
English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England.
Of those, he said, six are recusant husbands and two are wives.
Recusant historians are, for obvious reasons, those most likely to make the mistake.
Based west of Opelousas, his gang gathered recusant conscripts from St.
Anderton, Roger Butler of Thomas Hoghton, recusant exile in Flanders.