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Definition of Nonjurors
1. nonjuror [n] - See also: nonjuror
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonjurors
Literary usage of Nonjurors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Early History of the Tories: From the Accession of Charles the Second to by Clement Boulton Roylance Kent (1908)
"Before leaving the nonjurors it will be convenient to refer briefly to their ...
The terms were not convertible ; for though the nonjurors in a general way ..."
2. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"clamation to prevent such tumults, they being set on foot and fomented by papists,
nonjurors, and other enemies to her majesties title and government, ..."
3. The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and by Charles Knight (1859)
"Violent and factious men might bring contempt on the name of nonjurors ; but many
of the less distinguished among them set about getting their bread by the ..."
4. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Henry Hart Milman (1864)
"The Presbyterian nonjurors have scarcely been heard of out of Scotland; and
perhaps it may not now be generally known, even in Scotland, that they still ..."
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