The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nonjuror \Non*ju"ror\, n. (Eng. Hist.) 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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context historical Anglicanism English) 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.) 2 One who is not a juror. (from 19th c.)
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Usage examples of "nonjuror".
We know him to be disaffected, a nonjuror, and a plotter of a dark and intriguing character.
His chaplain, who had taken the oath, was replaced by a pious nonjuror, Pere Hebert, and the King decided henceforth to avoid communion from a constitutional priest.
The apprehensions thus artfully raised among the people inflamed their aversion to nonjurors and Jacobites.
The commons, alarmed at the number and insolence of those religionists, desired the king, in an address, to remove by proclamation all papists and nonjurors from the city of London and parts adjacent, and put the laws in execution against them, that the wicked designs they were always hatching might be effectually disappointed.
The commons entreated the queen, in an address, to take effectual measures for suppressing the present tumults, set on foot and fomented by papists, nonjurors, and other enemies to her title and government.