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Definition of Nonjuring
1. a. Not swearing allegiance; -- applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to William and Mary, or their successors.
Definition of Nonjuring
1. Adjective. Describing the bishops, clergy and congregations that refused to swear allegiance to William III of England. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nonjuring
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonjuring
Literary usage of Nonjuring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readings in Modern European History: A Collection of Extracts from the by James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard (1908)
"Decree which the nonjuring clergymen are constantly making to over- ...
The deportation of nonjuring ecclesiastics shall take place Definition of as a ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"Then the prisoner was carried back to Newgate, and afterwards was graciously
pardoned. 391. The Proceedings against the Three nonjuring Clergymen, ..."
3. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"One Brett, a nonjuring parson, is taken into custody, and about him several ...
There was taken among Mr. Brett's (the nonjuring parson's) papers a list of ..."
4. Book Auction Records by Frank Karslake (1904)
"or Priest for use in nonjuring Congregations. [See autograph letter of a
spe;ially-printed ... Probably made for a nonjuring Bishop Canticis &c. psr A. ..."
5. The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Ed. Under the Authority of the by Ezra Stiles (1901)
"... upon my asking how many nonjuring Bps there were now in being :—that Mr.
Talbot of Burlington was a nonjuring Bp. 31. ..."
6. The History of England from the Accession of James II. by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"... the nonjuring Prelates. Excited as the public mind then was, there was some
danger that this suggestion might bring a furious mob to Lambeth. ..."
7. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"Question of nonjuring papists.—There is one more incapacity of taking by descent,
which, not being productive of any and Danby, J., in YB Trin. 5 Hen. ..."
8. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1887)
"... Life and Writings of Charles Leslie, MA, nonjuring Divine. By the Rev. RJ Leslie.
London, 1885. 2. ..."
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