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nonjuror
[ non-joor-er ]
noun
- a person who refuses to take a required oath, as of allegiance.
- (often initial capital letter) English History. any of the clergymen of the Church of England who in 1689 refused to swear allegiance to William and Mary.
Nonjuror
1/ 藢苍蓲苍藞诲萧蕣蓹谤蓹 /
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
2/ 藢苍蓲苍藞诲萧蕣蓹谤蓹 /
noun
- a person who refuses to take an oath, as of allegiance
Example Sentences
鈥淛uror impartiality is adequately assured,鈥 she wrote, 鈥渂y the parties鈥 ability to bring to the court鈥檚 attention any evidence of bias before the verdict is rendered, and to employ nonjuror evidence even after the verdict is rendered.鈥
As a nonjuror he refused to take the oaths of allegiance to King George I., and early in 1716 he was deprived of his librarianship.
Nay, if that were all, how, he asked himself, could he face the honest Nonjuror?
It was, my lords, to take a lower place than the meanest Nonjuror who honourably gives up his cure.
Nobody has yet been taken, but the Gentry of the Silver Greyhound are thought to have their eyes on a certain Reverend Nonjuror.
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