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/ˈkweɪkɝz/
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NOUN
- a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers
How To Use Quakers In A Sentence
- This was also true for the Protestant denominations, including the Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Unitarians, Baptists, and Quakers.
- _History of the Quakers_, edit. 1725, pp. 219-227.; also in a pamphlet entitled _A Declaration of the sad and great Persecution and Martyrdom of the People of God, called Quakers, in New England, for the Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
- This was also true for the Protestant denominations, including the Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Unitarians, Baptists, and Quakers.
- I worked in Vienna in a therapeutic home which was founded by some American Quakers after the war.
- Incidentally - did the Quakers get their name because they 'quaked' when the Lord Was Upon Them? Doing Porridge
- To close this discourse, I shall only from it obviate a putid calumny cast by the Papists, Quakers, and others of the same confederacy, against the grace of God, upon the doctrine of the free justification of a sinner, through the imputation of the righteousness of Christ: for with a shameless impudence they clamour on all by whom it is asserted, as those who maintain salvation to be attainable through a mere external imputation of righteousness; whilst those so saved are Pneumatologia
- It is come to me also by a sidewind, as I may say, that you have been neighbouring more than was needful among some of the pestilent sect of Quakers — a people who own neither priest nor king, nor civil magistrate, nor the fabric of our law, and will not depone either IN Redgauntlet
- Among those observing the Hiroshima anniversary will be hundreds of Quakers in York, during their annual gathering at York University.
- It will not work to teach kids to be unaggressive because we do not have a society dominated by Quakers and pacifists.
- Some Quakers began to denounce slavery beyond their circle in society at large, and they drew negative response for doing so.