Meaning of nonjuror | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
   historical
2. One who is not a juror.

Examples

“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 — [...].”

“The character of a nonjuror which he maintained to the last is a sufficient evidence of his principles in Church and State […].”

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