Definition of Quakers

1. Noun. A Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers.


Definition of Quakers

1. Noun. (plural of Quaker) ¹

2. Proper noun. The Religious Society of Friends. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Quakers

1. quaker [n] - See also: quaker

Lexicographical Neighbors of Quakers

Quaaludes
Quadi
Quadragesima
Quadrigesima Sunday
Quai d'Orsay
Quaker
Quaker gun
Quaker guns
Quakeress
Quakeresses
Quakerish
Quakerism
Quakerisms
Quakerly
Quakers (current term)
Quakery
Qualitätswein
Qualitätsweins
Quals
Quamoclit pennata
Quant's sign
Quantas
Quanzhou
Quapaw
Quapaws
Quaranfil virus
Quartodeciman
Quartodecimanism

Literary usage of Quakers

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1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The trembling amongst the listening crowd caused or confirmed the name of Quakers given to the body: men and women sometimes fell, down and lay grovelling ..."

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