Nonjuring is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NONJURING in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a member of the clergy who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary in 1689.
ADJECTIVE:
• not swearing allegiance; applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to William and Mary, or their successors
• refusing the oath of allegiance
• Not swearing allegiance; -- applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to William and Mary, or their successors.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• not swearing allegiance —used especially of a member of a party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to William and Mary or to their successors

How to use NONJURING in a sentence

• William III regarded him with high favor, and he succeeded the nonjuring Sancroft in the arch-see of Canterbury.
• The Bishop, who was unwilling that the nonjuring priests should have the triumph of seeing their benefices remain vacant, fell into the snare, and proposed their taking orders.
• His father had been a non-juring clergyman, one of the many ejected from their livings on St.
• In this case the Nonjuring communion, which always proudly insisted that it alone was the true old Church of England, might have received an immense accession of adherents.
• Upon this he at once joined the Nonjuring communion.
• His younger acquaintances in the Nonjuring body, however sincere and generous in temperament, were men of a different order.
• Among the other Nonjuring bishops Nelson was acquainted with, but not very intimately, were Bancroft and Frampton.
• After the loss of his Camdenian Professorship of History, he lived among his nonjuring acquaintances at Shottisbrooke, immersed in abstruse studies.
• It was no promising omen for the future of the nonjuring party, that the Court of St.
• When a choice was given him of two or three of the sees vacated by the deprivation of the nonjuring bishops, he declined the offer.
• It must have added much to the moral strength of the nonjuring separation.
• It cannot be wondered at, that members of the nonjuring communion felt very keenly the isolated, and, so to say, the sectarian condition in which they were placed.
• Grabe, who has been already more than once spoken of as held in great esteem by the Nonjuring and High Church party.
• He was a constant daily attendant at the English, and more especially the nonjuring services, but for many years he communicated exclusively at the Greek Church.
• This latter party had been rent asunder by the nonjuring schism.
• The majority of the lower house, far from taking any measures in favour of dissenters, converted all their attention to the relief of their nonjuring brethren.
• The nonjuring prelates, in 1693, consecrated him Bishop of Thetford.
• Non-juring bishops were willing to go to jail rather than submit to the judgment of Parliament as to who should be king in England.

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