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- noun Plural form of
nonjuror .
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That change restored the vote to many Quakers, Anglicans, Lutherans, and other non-Calvinist sectarian nonjurors, who supported the Republican party because it had opposed the Test Acts.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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That change restored the vote to many Quakers, Anglicans, Lutherans, and other non-Calvinist sectarian nonjurors, who supported the Republican party because it had opposed the Test Acts.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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That change restored the vote to many Quakers, Anglicans, Lutherans, and other non-Calvinist sectarian nonjurors, who supported the Republican party because it had opposed the Test Acts.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Edward, the nonjurors of the period long continued to nurse unlawful schemes, and to drink treasonable toasts, until age stole upon them.
Redgauntlet 2008
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‘Aye, or drinking with nonjurors,’ said Maxwell, filling his glass.
Redgauntlet 2008
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Naturalization oaths were not required of citizens even in the eighteenth century and did not punish belief or impose upon nonjurors penalties denying them liberty and property without due process of law as did this oath.
Letters Levy, Leonard W. 1964
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A schism took place between the jurors and nonjurors -- the people became equally divided, and adhered either to the one or the other, as their habits or prepossessions directed them.
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A schism took place between the jurors and nonjurors -- the people became equally divided, and adhered either to the one or the other, as their habits or prepossessions directed them.
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September 1716 he was ordained deacon, and two days later, priest among the nonjurors by Bishop Jeremy Collier, in Mr. Laurence's chapel on
English Book Collectors William Younger Fletcher 1871
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They have not only carried their theological pretensions in the direction of Rome much further than the nonjurors; they have also in many cases so transformed the old and simple Anglican service by vestments and candles, and banners and incense, and genuflexions and whispered prayers, that a stranger might well imagine that he was in a Roman
The Map of Life Conduct and Character William Edward Hartpole Lecky 1870
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