nonjurantn.adj.

1691 in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. (1939) 33 He..desired Sir Francis Child to let him have that divine that went along with him to perform the last ghostly offices... They say it was Divine Hicks and after him came little Cook of Islington, both non-jurants.

1702 Reasons for addressing his Majesty to invite Electress Dowager 9 Those of 'em who pretend to be Protestants are particularly stil'd High-Flyers, High-Churchmen, a few of 'em Non-jurants, and all of 'em Torys.

1705 D. Defoe Consolidator 186 Their Reputation..is most unhappily tarnish'd and blur'd, with the malicious Attacks of the Whigs on the one Hand, and the Non-Jurants on the other.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. iv. 37 A poor Nonjurant, of quicker temper, smites the horny paw with his cane.

1848 A. Thomson Hist. Sketch of Origin Secession Church 8 The non-jurants..were supported..by the general voice of the people, who, looking upon the oath as a badge of slavery [etc.].

1881 D. C. A. Agnew Theol. Consol. 287 The most earnest [Presbyterian] ministers..refused to swear. To distinguish them from the Episcopal Non-jurors,..they were usually called non-jurants.

1696 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) IV. 138 One Glascome, a nonjurant parson.

a1704 T. Brown Wks. (1715) (title) Tho. Brown's Recantation of his Satyr on the French King. Suppos'd by some to be by Mr. Brown, tho' said by others to be Written by a Nonjurant-Parson.

1766 Scots Mag. Nov. 573 Being now regularly served by a nonjurant minister, many are falling off from the established church.

1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 372 A non-jurant place of worship.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. iv. 36 Poor Abbé Sicard, with some thirty other Nonjurant Priests.

1866 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 Sept. 5 The annexation of Hanover to Prussia seems likely to give rise to a class of non-jurant clergy in the former country.

1900 J. Dowden in C. E. G. Wright Gideon Guthrie Introd. p. xiv Guthrie, an Episcopal and non-jurant clergyman.

1987 Amer. Hist. Rev. 92 678/2 Searching statistical analysis enables Tackett to concentrate on the predominance of jurant or nonjurant priests in different geographical areas.

1709 E. Baynard Hot & Cold Baths in J. Floyer Hist. Cold Bathing (ed. 3) ii. 268 Now to reason a little why Men..should even against Conviction oppose Cold Bathing, is a Paradox, surely the reason must be the same with that of Nonjurantism.