| 单词 | nonjuror | 
| 释义 | nonjurorn. 1.  Church History. A person who refuses to take an oath; spec. (frequently with capital initial) a beneficed clergyman who refused to take an oath of allegiance in 1689 to William and Mary and their successors. Also in extended use. Cf. nonjurant n., non-swearer n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > vow > non-jurancy > 			[noun]		 > one characterized by non-subscriber1599 non-scriber1650 non-swearer1690 nonjurant1691 nonjuror1691 1691    A. Wood Life & Times 		(1894)	 III. 373  				To justifie his proceedings in not expelling the non-jurors or non-swearers. 1714    J. Swift Some Free Thoughts upon Present State Affairs 		(1741)	 21  				Excepting those who are Non-jurors by Profession, I have not met with above two Persons who appeared to have any Scruples concerning the present Limitation of the Crown. 1769    W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. 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. 1785    T. Jefferson Notes Virginia xvi. 285  				The only description, by which the laws have endeavoured to come at them, was that of non-jurors, or persons refusing to take the oath of fidelity to the state. 1813    Ld. Byron Let. 8 Oct. 		(1974)	 III. 136  				Her letter to you is gay—you say—that to me must have been written at the same time—the little demure Nonjuror! 1879    L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. vii. 289  				When Macaulay attacks an old non-juror or a modern Tory. 1910    Encycl. Brit. I. 45/1  				He..remained a non-juror during the whole of William's reign, being frequently fined for non-attendance. 1948    Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 20 113/1  				The portrait..was painted by one of Lauderdale's greatest admirers, the learned and celebrated Nonjuror, Dr. George Hickes. 1995    N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 Feb. 7/2  				Johnson as a Jacobite Tory and non-juror.  2.  A person who is not serving on a jury. ΚΠ 1880    N.Y. Times 1 Mar. 4/6  				It has, however, been held lawful for a person to take necessary refreshments to the jury in their room... But conversation between a juror and a non-juror is always strictly forbidden. 1963    Times 30 July 5/1  				There had been misconduct by the foreman of the jury in speaking to non-jurors to the effect that he had made up his mind before the trial had begun. 1997    Yale Law Jrnl. 106 1841  				In our system, a properly informed criminal jury given the proper evidence is always entitled to acquit a defendant; no other official can reverse that decision, no matter how ‘erroneous’ it seems to nonjurors. Derivatives  non-ˈjurorism n. rare ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > vow > non-jurancy > 			[noun]		 non-subscribing1651 non-swearing1692 nonjurantism1709 non-jurancy1715 non-subscription1736 non-jurorism1845 1845    Eng. Rev. June 377  				We believe that nonjurorism altogether was wrong at the time to which our narrative has brought us, and that the usagers were the more wrong of its parties. 1941    Amer. Hist. Rev. 46 394  				They were in the thick of the tumultuous events of their day..: non-jurorism; Jacobitism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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