non-ˈjuring, ppl. a. Hist.
[f. non-juror: see -ing2.]
Refusing the oath of allegiance; belonging to the party of non-jurors.
| 1691 Wood Life 21 Apr. (O.H.S.) III. 359 Non-juring bishops: Sancroft [etc.]. 1747 J. Owen (title) Jacobites and Nonjuring Principles freely examined. 1779 Boswell Let. 2 Feb. in Johnson, I..had solemn conversation with the Reverend Mr. Falconer, a nonjuring bishop. 1814 Scott Wav. xi, The nonjuring clergyman was a pensive and interesting old man, with much the air of a sufferer for conscience sake. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 495 Some non-juring assembly, where the service which he loved was performed without mutilation. 1882–3 Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1666 Nonjuring congregations continued to exist until the death of the last bishop Boothe, in 1805. |