Dictionary

nonjuror en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /nɒnˈdʒʊəɹə/ (UK)

Etymology

From non- + juror.

Meanings

1. (historical, qualifier: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.
   • The character of a nonjuror which he maintained to the last is a sufficient evidence of his principles in Church and State […]. c. 1793, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs, Penguin, published 1990, page 55:
   • 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 — [...]. 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section III:
2. One who is not a juror.

Forms

Deriveds

nonjurorism

Relateds

Nonjuring schism