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English
Etymology
From non- + juror.
Pronunciation
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.
1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section 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, published 1990, page 55:The character of a nonjuror which he maintained to the last is a sufficient evidence of his principles in Church and State […] .
- One who is not a juror.
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