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Quaker

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Quak·er  (kwkr)
n.
A member of the Society of Friends.
[From quake (from an early leader's admonishment to "tremble at the word of the Lord").]
Quaker·ism n.
Quaker·ly adv. & adj.
Quaker
Noun
a member of a Christian sect, the Religious Society of Friends [originally an offensive nickname]
Quakerism n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.QuakerQuaker - a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
Friend
Quakers, Religious Society of Friends, Society of Friends - a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers
Christian - a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination
2.Quakerquaker - one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear
trembler
coward - a person who shows fear or timidity
Translations

Quaker [ˈkweɪkəʳ] n → cuáquero/a
Quaker [ˈkweɪkəʳ] n → quaker(esse)
Quaker [ˈkweɪkəʳ] n → Quäker(in) m(f)
Quaker [ˈkweɪkəʳ] n → quacchero/a
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Though Jones was very unfit for any kind of company, and would have preferred being alone, yet he could not resist the importunities of the honest Quaker; who was the more desirous of sitting with him, from having remarked the melancholy which appeared both in his countenance and behaviour; and which the poor Quaker thought his conversation might in some measure relieve.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
WHEN his little audience next assembled round the chair, Grandfather gave them a doleful history of the Quaker persecution, which began in
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
There was nothing so very particular, perhaps, about the appearance of the elderly man I saw; he was brown and brawny, like most old seamen, and heavily rolled up in blue pilot-cloth, cut in the Quaker style; only there was a fine and almost microscopic net-work of the minutest wrinkles interlacing round his eyes, which must have arisen from his continual sailings in many hard gales, and always looking to windward; --for this causes the muscles about the eyes to become pursed together.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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