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Definition of Jerkers
1. jerker [n] - See also: jerker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jerkers
Literary usage of Jerkers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of by John Henry Blunt (1874)
"jerkers AND BARKERS. A name given to the fanatics who, at "camp-meetings" in
America, indulge religious " exercises of falling down, rolling, shouting, ..."
2. Familiar Conversations: In which the Salvation of All Mankind is Clearly by Russell Streeter (1835)
"68—77. t Revivals are conducted, in this region, in a manner which would put
Shakerism to the blush. The power of sympathy among' the poor, deluded jerkers, ..."
3. North American Students and World Advance: Addresses Delivered at the Eighth by Burton St. John (1920)
"... the jerkers" and that I thought the kindest way of describing a great many of
ourselves as Christian students, would be to call ourselves jerkers. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and by Daniel Hack Tuke (1892)
"JERKS, jerkers.—A name given to the hysterical form of maniacal excitement in
which the patients went through a pantomimic performance, jerking, twisting, ..."
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