Meaning of Quaker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Quaker.
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2. A believer of the Quaker faith and a member of the Society of Friends, known for their pacifist views.
3. A player of any game in the Quake series of first-person shooters.
4. Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Pithecops.

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Examples

“The demon of fanaticism was the shape⟳ which it took with us; and verily, what with religious republicans, harmonists, quakers, fifth-monarchy men, Presbyterians, and the reign of the saints upon earth, it needs the strong hand of a Cromwell to reduce⟳ the spiritual chaos to any sort⟳ of order⟳.”

“The timid and trimming politics of some men of large property here have⟳ almost done their business for them. They have⟳ lost their influence⟳, and grown obnoxious. The quakers and proprietarians together have⟳ little weight. New Jersey shows a noble ardor. Is there any thing in the air or soil of New York unfriendly to the spirit of liberty?”

“The demon of fanaticism was the shape⟳ which it took with us; and verily, what with religious republicans, harmonists, quakers, fifth-monarchy men, Presbyterians, and the reign of the saints upon earth, it needs the strong hand of a Cromwell to reduce⟳ the spiritual chaos to any sort⟳ of order⟳.”

“There is also a chancellor, — no, I mistake⟳, — a chandler and green-grocer, with his hands full of warts; a hunch-backed cadger; a one-eyed cutler; a pudgy exciseman, who is often the worse for liquor, being fond of tippling and sotting in taps; a lubberly fuller; a limping, spoffish limner; a tawer, with a wen or a whelk on the tip⟳ of his nose; a stuttering plumber; a splenish quaker; a sexton, with teeth like⟳ the times of a harrow; a weazen-faced vintner; a snuffling undertaker’s mute, clothed in deep mourning, and talking of nothing but hearses and palls, dirges and passing-bells.”

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