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non-juror, nonjuror Hist.|nɒnˈdʒʊərə(r)|
[non- 2.]
Orig., one of the beneficed clergy who refused to take the oath of allegiance in 1689 to William and Mary. Also, in wider use (see quot. 1769).
1691Wood Life 14 Oct. (O.H.S.) III. 373 To justifie his proceedings in not expelling the non-jurors or non-swearers. 1696Evelyn Diary 26 Feb., A Conspiracy of about 30 Knights, [etc.]..many of them Irish and English Papists and Nonjurors or Jacobites (so call'd), to murder K. William. 1714Swift Pres. St. Aff. Wks. 1751 IV. 276 Excepting those who are Nonjurors by profession, I have not met with above two persons who appeared to have any scruples concerning the present Limitation of the Crown. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. ix. 124 Every person refusing the same [oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration] who is properly called a non-juror, shall be adjudged a popish recusant convict. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. xv. (1876) III. 109 Eight bishops,..with about four hundred clergy,..chose the more honourable course of refusing the new oaths; and thus began the schism of the nonjurors. 1852Thackeray Esmond xi, So my Lord Castlewood remained a nonjuror all his life nearly. 1879L. Stephen Hours in Library III. 289 When Macaulay attacks an old non-juror or modern Tory.
Hence non-ˈjurorism, the principles of the non-jurors.
1882in Ogilvie. |