Definitions for quakers

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Religious Society of Friends, Society of Friends, Quakers(noun)

    a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers

Wiktionary

  1. Quakers(ProperNoun)

    The Religious Society of Friends.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Quakers

    the Society of Friends (q. v.), so called first by Justice Bennet of Derby, because Fox bade him quake before the Lord.


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