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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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The nonjuror was a man thoroughly fitted by nature, education, and habit, for polemical dispute.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

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

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

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

This song was composed by the Rev. John Skinner, nonjuror clergyman at Linshart, near Peterhead.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

There could not be many subjects on which Hoadly and Shaftesbury, Spinckes the Nonjuror, Winston and Calamy could all be writing contemporaneously on the same side.

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

He was deprived of his see as a Nonjuror in 1691.

From The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See by W. D. (Walter Debenham) Sweeting

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

From Shrewsbury A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman

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

From Stray Studies from England and Italy by John Richard Greene

It is proposed in this chapter to make Robert Nelson the central figure, and to group around him some of the most distinguished of his Juror and Nonjuror friends.

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

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