nonjuror
noun
- a person who refuses to take an oath, as one of allegiance
- any of the clergymen of the Church of England who refused to take such an oath at the accession of William and Mary in 1689
See nonjuror in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(nŏn-jo͝orˈər, -ôrˌ)
noun- One who refuses to take an oath, as of allegiance.
- Nonjuror 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.
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