Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not swearing allegiance: an epithet applied to those clergymen and prelates in England who would not swear allegiance to the government after the revolution of 1688.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not swearing allegiance; -- applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to William and Mary, or their successors.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Describing the
bishops ,clergy andcongregations that refused to swear allegiance to William III of England.
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Examples
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Sherequired that the marriage be blessed by a nonjuring priest after a confession.
Archive 2008-02-10 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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The surprising effect which had been produced by small means, in 1745 – 6, animated their hopes for more important successes, when the whole nonjuring interest of Britain, identified as it then was with great part of the landed gentlemen, should come forward to finish what had been gallantly attempted by a few Highland chiefs.
Redgauntlet 2008
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Sherequired that the marriage be blessed by a nonjuring priest after a confession.
Danton de Brantigny........................ 2008
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We saw in one of its streets a remarkable proof of liberal toleration; a nonjuring clergyman, strutting about in his canonicals, with a jolly countenance and a round belly, like
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I may even boast right reverend authority on the same score; for more than one nonjuring bishop, whose authority and income were upon as apostolical a scale as the greatest abominator of Episcopacy could well desire, have deigned, while partaking of the humble cheer of the
Old Mortality 2004
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In the year 1698, Jeremy Collier, a distinguished nonjuring clergyman, published _A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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Carew's restless disposition took him to Newfoundland, and on his return he successfully played the parts of a nonjuring clergyman, dispossessed of his living for conscience 'sake; a Quaker -- here is a good example of his wonderful gift -- in an assembly of Quakers; a ruined miller; a rat-catcher; and, having borrowed three children from a tinker, a
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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At the King's deposition this decree took place, and such of the nonjuring priests as were not massacred in the prisons, or escaped the search, were to be embarked for Guiana.
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The deprivation of nonjuring clergymen had been proceeding since the establishment of the new Government, and in 1690 an act was passed restoring to their parishes the Presbyterian clergy who had been ejected under Charles II.
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait
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Being assured that he would resist the decree relative to the nonjuring and seditious priesthood, they sent it to him for the purpose of provoking his resistance, that the citizens might see his lack of cordiality towards the revolution.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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