nonjuror
English
Etymology
From non- + juror.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /nɒnˈdʒʊəɹə/
Noun
nonjuror (plural nonjurors)
- (historical, Anglicanism) Someone who refuses to swear a particular oath, specifically a clergyman who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689. [from 17th c.]
- 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, III:
- Accident brought her into the Company of a Couple of Clergymen, disguised in Secular Habits, The one was a Venerable Old Nonjuror, the other, the Reverend Dr..... Dean of — [...].
- c. 1793, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs, Penguin 1990, p. 55:
- The character of a nonjuror which he maintained to the last is a sufficient evidence of his principles in Church and State […] .
- 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, III:
- One who is not a juror. [from 19th c.]
See also
- Nonjuring schism