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Conjuror vs Nonjuror - What's the difference?

conjuror | nonjuror |

As nouns the difference between conjuror and nonjuror

is that conjuror is an alternative spelling of lang=en while nonjuror is 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.

conjuror

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (legal, obsolete) One bound by a common oath with others.

    • nonjuror

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
  • *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 — [...].
  • One who is not a juror.

    • See also

    * (Nonjuring schism)