A member of the clergy who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689.
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The longest piece by far is Jonathan Clark's essay on ‘Samuel Johnson as a Nonjuror’, which pursues further some of the evidence for Johnson's true allegiances used in his 1994 book on the Great Cham.
Definition of Nonjuror in US English:
Nonjuror
nounnänˈjo͝orər
A member of the English clergy who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689.
Example sentencesExamples
The longest piece by far is Jonathan Clark's essay on ‘Samuel Johnson as a Nonjuror’, which pursues further some of the evidence for Johnson's true allegiances used in his 1994 book on the Great Cham.