nonjuror

plural nonjurors

1. historicalAnglicanismSomeone who refuses to swear a particular oath, specifically a clergyman who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689.First known use 17th c.

   The character of a nonjuror which he maintained to the last is a sufficient evidence of his principles in Church and State […].

   c. 1793, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs, Penguin, published 1990, page 55

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   Accident brought her into the Company of a Couple of Clergymen, disguised in Secular Habits, The one was a Venerable Old Nonjuror, the other, the Reverend Dr..... Dean of — [...].

   1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section III

2. One who is not a juror.First known use 19th c.