- Nonjuror⇄Nonjuror, noun.
1. one of the clergymen of the Church of England who in 1689 refused to swear allegiance to William and Mary and who were deprived of their benefices.
2. a member of a separate communion founded by these clergymen. It survived - nonjuror⇄nonjuror, noun.
a person who refuses to take a required oath.