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Quakers   /kwˈeɪkərz/   Listen
Quakers

noun
1.
A Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers.  Synonyms: Religious Society of Friends, Society of Friends.



Quaker

noun
1.
A member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers).  Synonym: Friend.
2.
One who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear.  Synonym: trembler.



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"Quakers" Quotes from Famous Books



... June we marched to a place within four miles of Port Republic, called Cross Keys, where several roads met. Near at hand was the meeting-house of a sect of German Quakers, Tunkers or Dunkards, as they are indifferently named. Here Jackson determined to await and fight Fremont, who followed him hard; but as a part of Shields's force was now unpleasantly near, he pushed on to Port Republic with Winder's and other infantry, and a battery, which camped on the hither ...
— Destruction and Reconstruction: - Personal Experiences of the Late War • Richard Taylor

... "They don't drownd what they call witches, nor hang Quakers, nor whip Baptists, nor have twenty wives. It don't do for us to find too much fault with the religion of other nations, Miss Meechim, specially them that teaches the highest morality, ...
— Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife • Marietta Holley

... themselves loose. Jetting, of Dartmouth, followed, and the New Hampshire lads greeted him in a manner that brought the blood to his cheeks. Then little Judd, the U. P. man, trotted out, and he was received with howls of delight from the Quakers. ...
— Frank Merriwell's Races • Burt L. Standish

... out of the wood. On proceeding to nominate members of the committee, the Unitarians and Quakers claimed to be represented. The platform and the meeting were by the ears again. It was fiercely contended that only Evangelical Christians could have a place in such a work, and many of the nominees declared that they would not sit on a ...
— Ginx's Baby • Edward Jenkins

... in South Wales, where the boy saw one of his mills, still making Welsh flannels, when he visited his father's birthplace a few years ago. This great-grandfather was a Friend by Convincement, as the Quakers say; that is, he was a convert, and not a born Friend, and he had the zeal of a convert. He loved equality and fraternity, and he came out to America towards the close of the last century to prospect for these as well as for a good location to manufacture Welsh flannels; but after being ...
— A Boy's Town • W. D. Howells


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