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Quakerist en · ADJ

Etymology

From Quaker + -ist.

Meanings

  1. (uncommon) Quaker or Quaker-like.
    • Jones does attempt to differentiate Platonic from “New Testament” mysticism, in keeping with his Quakerist Protestantism, but for all that he is compelled to acknowledge that Platonism is the headwaters of all European mysticism. 2017, Arthur Versluis, Platonic Mysticism: Contemplative Science, Philosophy, Literature, and Art, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 38:
    • Yet neither Pennsylvania's Quakerist tendencies toward gender equality nor Connecticut's legacy of radical Protestantism prevented these two colonies from sacrificing a widow's rights to commercial considerations. 1997, Carol Berkin, First Generations: Women in Colonial America, Hill and Wang, →ISBN:
    • DUNKERS, a sect of Quakerist Baptists in the United States. 1920, P. Austin Nuttall, J. Wood, The Nuttall Encyclopedia, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:
    • WASPS have a great churchgoing tradition, belonging as they do, to Baptists, Methodist, Quakerist, or even Calvinist or Lutheran congregations, and there is nothing like a maiden trained in complete submission to the will of her master. 1988, M. Z. Farrukh, Thursday Notes:
    • From his second year at Haverford Arishima began to read Quakerist classics like the Journal of George Fox (1694) and works written about Quakerism like […] The Life of William Penn (1882). 1981, Harold Bolitho, Alan Rix, Japanese Studies Association of Australia, A Northern prospect: Australian papers on Japan