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nonjurors

nonjurors is the plural of nonjuror.

Meaning of nonjuror

Noun

nonjuror (plural nonjurors)

  1. (historical, Anglicanism) Someone who refuses to swear a particular oath, specifically a clergyman who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689.
    • 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.

Questions about nonjurors

What is nonjurors the plural of?
Nonjurors is the plural of nonjuror.

Words near nonjurors in the dictionary

  1. nonjurist
  2. nonjuristic
  3. nonjurists
  4. nonjuror
  5. nonjurorism
  6. nonjurors
  7. nonjury
  8. nonjurying
  9. nonjussive
  10. nonjusticiability
  11. nonjusticiable

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