nonjuror

[non-joor-er]

noun

1. a person who refuses to take a required oath, as of allegiance.

2. (often initial capital letter),  any of the clergymen of the Church of England who in 1689 refused to swear allegiance to William and Mary.

Nonjuror

¹

/ ˌnɒnˈdʒʊərə /

noun

1. any of a group of clergy in England and Scotland who declined to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689

nonjuror

²

/ ˌnɒnˈdʒʊərə /

noun

1. a person who refuses to take an oath, as of allegiance

Word History and Origins

Origin of Nonjuror¹

First recorded in 1685–95; non- + juror

Example Sentences

“Juror impartiality is adequately assured,” she wrote, “by the parties’ ability to bring to the court’s attention any evidence of bias before the verdict is rendered, and to employ nonjuror evidence even after the verdict is rendered.”

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As a nonjuror he refused to take the oaths of allegiance to King George I., and early in 1716 he was deprived of his librarianship.

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It was, my lords, to take a lower place than the meanest Nonjuror who honourably gives up his cure.

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Nay, if that were all, how, he asked himself, could he face the honest Nonjuror?

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Nobody has yet been taken, but the Gentry of the Silver Greyhound are thought to have their eyes on a certain Reverend Nonjuror.

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