non-juring

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

NON-JURING, adjective [Latin Non, not, and to swear.] Not swearing allegiance; an epithet applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to the Hanoverian family and government.
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