The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nonjuring \Non*ju"ring\, a. [F. jurer to swear, or L. jurare, jurari, to swear, fr. L. jus, juris, right, law, justice. See Jury.] Not swearing allegiance; -- applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to William and Mary, or their successors.
Wiktionary
a. Describing the bishops, clergy and congregations that refused to swear allegiance to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20III%20of%20England.
Usage examples of "nonjuring".
This is the penalty already inflicted on the nonjuring bishop who persists in considering himself a bishop, who ordains priests and who issues a pastoral letter.
Such is soon to be the penalty inflicted on the nonjuring curé who presumes to hear confession or officiate at a mass.
The municipality of Cahors shuts up particular churches and orders the nonjuring ecclesiastics to leave the town in twenty-four hours.
In the same case with them are others who, with still greater innocence, have left the territory, magistrates, ordinary rich people, burgesses, or peasants, Catholics, and particularly one entire class, the nonjuring clergy, from the cardinal archbishop down to the simple village vicar, all prosecuted, then despoiled, then crushed by the same popular oppression and by the same legislative oppression, each of these two persecutions exciting and aggravating the other to such an extent that, at last, the populace and the law, one the accomplice of the other, no longer leave a roof nor a piece of bread, nor an hour's safety to a gentleman or to a priest.
During the month of April, 1792, forty-two departments pass against nonjuring priests "acts which are neither prescribed nor authorized by the Constitution," and, before the end of the Legislative Assembly, forty-three others will have followed in their train.
Besides this, the band also works by day in the streets, lashes the women, enters the churches saber in hand, and drives the nonjuring priest from the altar.
They close churches, drive away nonjuring priests, remove clappers from the bells, eat and drink what they please at the expense of the inhabitants, and often, in the houses of the mayor or tax-registrar, indulge in the pleasure of breaking everything to pieces.
Act of the Council-general of Corrèze (July 16, 17, 18, 1792) to place in arrest all nonjuring priests.
Five or six nonjuring priests had retreated to the chateau," - Moniteur, sitting of April 16, 1792.