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Definition of Quaker
1. Noun. A member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers).
Group relationships: Quakers, Religious Society Of Friends, Society Of Friends
Generic synonyms: Christian
Specialized synonyms: Penn, William Penn
2. Noun. One who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear.
Definition of Quaker
1. n. One who quakes.
Definition of Quaker
1. Noun. (religion) A believer of the Quaker faith and a member of the Society of Friends, known for their pacifist views. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Quaker
1. one that quakes [n -S] - See also: quakes
Medical Definition of Quaker
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1. One who quakes.
2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend. "Fox's teaching was primarily a preaching of repentance . . . The trembling among the listening crowd caused or confirmed the name of Quakers given to the body; men and women sometimes fell down and lay struggling as if for life." (Encyc. Brit)
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Quaker
Literary usage of Quaker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"AG DICKINSON, л. AG AFFIDAVIT OF LT GATEWOOD. 1 testify that, when on the point
of starting with his forces for the quaker road, with JB Sweeney as a guide, ..."
2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"The Dipper Plung'd, or Thomas Hicks his Feigned Dialogue between a Christian and
a quaker proved an Unchristian Forgery consisting of Self- contradictions ..."
3. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1880)
"To bring a " known quaker" into the colony was made punishable ... The quaker
himself was to be whipped twenty stripes, sent to the house of correction, ..."
4. English Colonies in America by John Andrew Doyle (1907)
"The individual quaker might find it hard to adapt himself to an ... We are wont
when quaker colonization is mentioned to think exclusively of Pennsylvania. ..."
5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1857)
"A quaker BARGAIN. The Boston Post relates an anecdote of a mercantile transaction,
which is hardly in keeping with the general character of that ..."
6. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1896)
"The first committee to oversee the press—a quaker Index ... This committee was
changed from time to time, but was a regular part of quaker economy. ..."