单词 | nonjuring |
释义 | nonjuringadj. Church History. Esp. of a clergyman: that refuses to take an oath of allegiance; that is a nonjuror. Also: belonging to or characteristic of nonjurors. Cf. nonjurant adj. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > vow > non-jurancy > [adjective] nonjuring1691 non-swearing1691 nonjurant1696 non-subscribing1716 non-juristical1723 non-jurist1871 1691 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 359 Non-juring bishops: Sancroft [etc.]. 1747 J. Owen (title) Jacobites and nonjuring principles freely examined. 1779 J. Boswell Let. 2 Feb. in Life Johnson (1791) II. 280 I..had solemn conversation with the Reverend Mr. Falconer, a non-juring bishop. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xi. 139 The nonjuring clergyman was a pensive and interesting old man, with much the air of a sufferer for conscience sake. View more context for this quotation 1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 1666 Nonjuring congregations continued to exist until the death of the last bishop Boothe, in 1805. 1921 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 15 119 Mr. Laski has pointed the meaning for our own day of such controversies as those connected with the nonjuring schism. 1965 H. Mitchell Underground War against Revolutionary France viii. 154 Louis [XVIII] had planned to persuade the émigré bishops..to organize and direct non-juring priests in four separate areas in France. 1997 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 69 689 A rich variety of factors as diverse as..the presence of nonjuring priests, market integration, and geography all shaped these circumstances. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1691 |
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