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What is a nonjuror?

What is a nonjuror? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  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. [from 17th c.]
  2. One who is not a juror. [from 19th c.]
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Henry Dodwell, the nonjuror, died in 1711, in his seventieth year.
His opinions, as he was a nonjuror, seem not to have been remarkably rigid.
Six months, to be reckoned from that day, were allowed to the nonjuror for reconsideration.
Although I enjoy my somewhat reluctant status as a nonjuror, I hope the system looks at itself to create a more equal selection of future jurors.
The nonjuror was a man thoroughly fitted by nature, education, and habit for polemical dispute.
Mr. Clayton, as will be conjectured from what we are about to narrate, was a Jacobite and a nonjuror.

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