Definition of "nonjuror" [non•ju•ror]

• One who refuses to take an oath, as of allegiance. (noun)
• A beneficed Anglican clergyman who refused to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to William and Mary and their successors after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. (noun)

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• "The nonjuror was a man thoroughly fitted by nature, education, and habit for polemical dispute."
• "But unless I am sitting in the jury box armed with that power I, and any other nonjuror for that matter, have no obligation, moral or legal, to embrace that legal fiction."
• "At a very early age he showed such marked ability that Francis Cherry, the nonjuror, who resided at Shottesbrooke in the same neighbourhood, undertook to defray the cost of his education, and first sent him to the free school of Bray, and afterwards, in 1695, to St. Edmund Hall, Oxford."