Jurant
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Jurant is an adjective meaning Under oath; swearing.
Meaning
Under oath; swearing.
More Meanings
- One who has taken an oath, especially a religious one.
Example Sentences
Thus the solemn work of swearing is awfully profaned by both the imposer and the jurant.
Not that such universally prevalent, universally jurant, feeling of Hope, could be a unanimous one.
Because “the least body” was jurant, and had not the bishops politically “at its head;” therefore, it had them not spiritually!
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.
Word Forms
- jurants
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include avowed, oathful, nuncupative, objurgatory, oathbound, rogatory.
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