nonjurorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From non- +‎ juror.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /nɒnˈdʒʊəɹə/

名詞

nonjuror (複数形 nonjurors)

1. (historical, Anglicanism) Someone who refuses to swear a particular oath, specifically a clergyman who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689. [from 17th c.]
   • 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, III:

     Accident brought her into the Company of a Couple of Clergymen, disguised in Secular Habits, The one was a Venerable Old Nonjuror, the other, the Reverend Dr..... Dean of — [...].

   • c. 1793, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs, Penguin 1990, p. 55:

     The character of a nonjuror which he maintained to the last is a sufficient evidence of his principles in Church and State […] .

2. One who is not a juror. [from 19th c.]

参考

• Nonjuring schism