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Definition: NONJURING |
NONJURINGAdjective1. Not swearing allegiance; -- applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to William and Mary, or their successors. |
Date "NONJURING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Etymology: Nonjuring \Non*ju"ring\, adjective. [French expression jurer to swear, or Latin jurare, jurari, to swear, from the Latin expression jus, juris, right, law, justice. See Jury.]. (Websters 1913) |
"NONJURING" is a common misspelling or typo for: conjuring. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dissent | Adjective: dissenting; v; negative; dissident, dissentient; unconsenting; (refusing); non-content, nonjuring; protestant, recusant; unconvinced, unconverted. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: NONJURING |
| English words defined with "NONJURING": Nonjurant. (references) |
| "NONJURING" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "NONJURING" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 50% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Words rhyming with "NONJURING" (pronounced 'Non*ju"ring'): Banxring, Curmurring, Derring, Earring, Firring, herring, Inconcurring, Nonrecurring, Pickle-herring, Sacring, Sinsring. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-j-n-n-n-o-r-u" | |
-2 letters: grunion, running. | |
-3 letters: junior. | |
-4 letters: giron, groin, guiro, inurn, jingo, ninon, ruing, union, unrig. | |
-5 letters: girn, giro, grin, inro, iron, jinn, join, noir, nori, noun, ring, ruin, rung. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 4F 4E 4A 55 52 49 4E 47 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. --- -. .--- ..- .-. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01001111 01001110 01001010 01010101 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N O N J U R I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 004F 004E 004A 0055 0052 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)484948445552434841 |
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