What is "seekers"

Ranter \Rant"er\ (r[a^]nt"[~e]r), n.

1. A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.

2. (Eccl. Hist.)

   1. One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker.

   2. One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.

n. (plural of seeker English)

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A broadsheet "Catalogue of the severall Sects and Opinions", 1647

]] The Seekers, or Legatine-Arians as they were sometimes known, were an English Protestant dissenting group that emerged around the 1620s, probably inspired by the preaching of three brothers – Walter, Thomas, and Bartholomew Legate. Seekers considered all organised churches of their day corrupt and preferred to wait for God's revelation. Many of them subsequently joined the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

Seekers is a children's novel series written by a team of authors under the pseudonym Erin Hunter, who also wrote the Warriors series. Seekers follows the adventures of four bear cubs: Kallik (a polar bear), Lusa (a black bear), Ujurak (a small grizzly bear who can shape-shift into any animal), and Toklo (also a grizzly bear). Led by Ujurak, the four bears search for a place where they can live in peace without human interference and harassment. The first book The Quest Begins was released on May 27, 2008 and was followed by Great Bear Lake, Smoke Mountain, The Last Wilderness, Fire in the Sky, and Spirits in the Stars, released on February 8, 2011. The series has been well received, with critics praising the realistic behavior of the characters, the excitement in the novels, and the descriptions of the bears' world.

Seekers is a two-part TV mini-series released on ITV from 25 to 28 April 1993 about a police officer who disappears, and when his wife tries to find him, she discovers... another wife. They team up to search for him. It starred Brenda Fricker and Josette Simon, and was written by the celebrated novelist and screenwriter Lynda La Plante who also wrote the book of the same name. It was produced by Sarah Lawson.

Seekers were a 17th-century religious group.

Seekers may also refer to:

• Seekers (TV series), a British TV film starring Josette Simon and Brenda Fricker
• Seekers (novel series), book series by Erin Hunter
• Seekers (Transformers), characters in the Transformers Universe fiction
• The Seekers (Chicago), a UFO cult group based in the U.S. in the 1950s
• The Seekers, Australian folk-influenced pop group
  • The New Seekers, a British pop group formed by members of the Seekers
• The Seekers (1954 film), a 1954 film based on the novel by John Guthrie
• The Seekers (1979 film), a 1979 film based on the novel by John Jakes
• The Seekers (novel), 1975 novel by John Jakes
• The Seekers (book), 1998 non-fiction book of cultural history in the "knowledge" trilogy
• The Seekers (comics), British 60s newspaper comic strip
• The Seekers, demons on the television show Charmed
• Seekers, a religion in the Dragonlance novels