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  nonjuror

  noun

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

  noun

  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

American  

[non-joor-er] / nɒnˈdʒʊər ər /

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.

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Nonjuror ¹ British  

/ 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

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nonjuror ² British  

/ ˌnɒnˈdʒʊərə /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of nonjuror

First recorded in 1685–95; non- + juror

Example Sentences

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Thou mak'st me swear, that am a known nonjuror.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

His opinions, as he was a nonjuror, seem not to have been remarkably rigid.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Samuel Johnson

Victory, peace, prosperity, seemed evils to the stanch nonjuror of our island if they tended to make usurpation popular and permanent.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

Cornbury was a tool of Marlborough, and was the son of a nonjuror and of a notorious plotter.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

However, it is some mortification to me, when I see an avowed nonjuror contribute more to the confounding of Popery, than could ever be done by a hundred thousand such Introductions as this.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift

The Archbishop himself consecrated: one Nonjuror reading the prayers, another preaching.

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by John Richard Greene

Walter Harte, for example, the Nonjuror, in his poem upon painting, trusted that 'the cold north' would not always remain insensible to the claims of religious art.

From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey

Francis Lee, the Nonjuror, an excellent man, one of Robert Nelson's friends, was 'once a great Bourignonist.'—Hearne to Rawlinson, App. in.

From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey

William Law, the Nonjuror, was thoroughly fascinated by them, and their influence upon him forms an episode of considerable interest in the religious history of the period.

From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey

"The Careless Husband" even Pope had praised; "The Nonjuror," an adaptation of Molière's "Tartuffe," was one of the most successful comedies of the period.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various