NONJUROR

Etymology

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.]

One who is not a juror. [from 19th c.]

Source: Wiktionary


Non*ju"ror, n. (Eng. Hist.)

Definition: One of those adherents of James II. who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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