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quaker
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1651, said to have been applied to them in 1650 by Justice Bennett at Derby, from George Fox's admonition to his followers to "tremble at the Word of the Lord;" but the word was used earlier of foreign sects given to fits of shaking during religious fervor, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nankeen \Nan*keen"\, n. [So called from its being originally manufactured at Nankin (Nanjing), in China.] [Written also nankin .] A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought from China, made of a species of cotton ( Gossypium religiosum ) ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Quaker is a reference to the Religious Society of Friends , a faith-based community. Quaker could also refer to: People The Quaker Poet , a nickname for John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), and sometimes also for Bernard Barton (1784-1849) see List of Quakers ...
Usage examples of quaker.
The Quakers have been celebrated for the pertinacity with which they avoid giving a direct answer, but what Quaker could ever vie with a Yankee in this sort of fencing?
Peggy Shippen was a delightful, fun-loving girl from an old Quaker family when she met the man assigned as American military commander in Philadelphia, Benedict Arnold.
In numbers, if not in influence, Presbyterians and Baptists had long since surpassed the Quakers of the Quaker City.
He is a frequent and faithful and capable officer in the civil service, but he is charged with an unpatriotic disinclination to stand by the flag as a soldier--like the Christian Quaker.
Quakers in the abolition of slavery both in England and America, especially the life-long work of John Woolman in the colonies, is well known.
Quakers, or might have friends among the antislavery groups, led by such people as Woolman and Anthony Benezet, and Ben Franklin.
West Jersey near Mount Holly was born and lived John Woolman, a Quaker who became eminent throughout the English speaking world for the simplicity and loftiness of his religious thought as well as for his admirable style of expression.
As a Quaker and ardent Republican, Logan was not the sort of man Adams was known to favor.
Leo had only been the department manager for a week and a half when he accused Blackburn of stealing a case of Quaker State 10W-30 Multi-Viscosity Motor Oil.
He even crossed to the eastern shore of the Chesapeake to visit a Quaker meeting on the Choptank before winter set in, and he describes the immense migration of wild pigeons at that season, and the ducks which flew so low and were so tame that the colonists knocked them down with sticks.
Lo by tendering him one-half his money in government bonds, and for this great wrong the peaceable Quaker, the humanitarian Unitarian, the orthodox Congregationalist and Presbyterian, the enthusiastic Methodist and staid Baptist, felt it but right Mr.
And when teacher John read from the writings of George Fox, the founder of their Quaker faith, it seemed to Dolley that his long, lean finger was pointing straight at her.
As if, thought Dolley, his old friends wanted to atone for an action that their Quaker consciences had not quite been able to reconcile with the promptings of the Inner Light.
William Thornton, the city district commissioner, a Quaker whom Dolley had known in Philadelphia.
Still loyal to her Quaker traditions, Dolley did not participate in the dancing, but she did enjoy playing cards.