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  nonjuror

  noun

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

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Example Sentences

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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

Controversies of earlier origin with assailants of the faith were ably maintained by, among others, Daniel Waterland, William Law, a nonjuror, Bishop Butler, whose Analogy appeared in 1736, and Bishop Berkeley.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various

We read, as we come through the lobby, in the face and gestures of every nonjuror whom we pass, delight at the momentary coolness which has arisen between us and the King.

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

So my Lord Castlewood remained a nonjuror all his life nearly, though his self-denial caused him many a pang, and left him sulky and out of humor.

From The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne by William Makepeace Thackeray

So my Lord Castlewood remained a nonjuror all his life nearly, though his self-denial caused him many a pang, and left him sulky and out of humour.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury

This was too much for Doctor Vigors, who had once been in orders, and was still a Nonjuror, winked at, for his skill's sake, by Authority.

From The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala

It is a remarkable fact that the chief of this party was a peer who had been a vehement Tory, and who afterwards died a Nonjuror, Clarendon.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

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

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

From Parson Kelly by Andrew Lang

But, in the middle of the century, High Churchmen of this type would scarcely be found, except in Nonjuror 'conventicles,' and among the oppressed Episcopalians of Scotland.

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

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