Meanings
- rareuncountableThe process or act of making an oath.
There's this fringe movement going around the world, and much of the movement claims that the fringe movement is fundamentally about non-juration.
2005, Lisa Mulcahy, quoting Nick Stucchio, Theater Festivals, Allworth, →ISBN2 more examples
Lord Lyttelton has detected in our Sydney's 'Letters' "two oaths," or, to speak more accurately (for there is no juration in the case), two "d—ns," pp. 6 and 16.
1888, Janet Ross, Three Generations of English Women, J. Murray, page 13As the imposition of objectionable oaths had served as the pretext for the persecution of presbyterians during the covenanting era, Erskine had good cause to fear that non-juration would carry a heavy cost; faced with the approach of that threat, Erskine was preparing humself for the suffering that would accompany it.
2016, Stephen G Myers, Scottish Federalism and Covenantalism in Transition, Lutterworth Press, →ISBN, page 22
Origin
- Latiniurationem
- Englishjuration
Borrowed from Latin iurationem, accusative singular of iuratio (“swearing, oath, vow”).
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