jurantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

jurant (複数形 jurants)

1. One who has taken an oath, especially a religious one.
   • 1823, John Bristed, Thought, on the Anglican and Anglo-American Churches, page 225:

     They are divided into jurants, and nonjurants. The jurants qualify to the government, and are on the same footing with episcopals in England. The nonjurants, who will not qualify, are avowed friends to the wicked old cause of the pretender.

   • 1841, Robert Smith, Self-inconsistency exemplified, page 10:

     Thus the solemn work of swearing is awfully profaned by both the imposer and the jurant.

   • 1842, William Maxwell Hetherington, History of the Church of Scotland, page 613:

     A very considerable number of the best ministers refused to take that oath; and a schism was like to take place between those who felt at liberty to swear and those who did not, or the jurants and the non-jurants.