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Quaker
Quaker, the statutory, as well as the popular, name of a member of the religious Society of Friends. The society was founded by George Fox about the middle of the seventeenth century, and gained many adherents...
Quakerism
The peculiar character manners tenets etc of the Quakers
Quakerly
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Quaker
One who quakes
Quakery
Quakerism
Quakerlike
Like a Quaker
Affirmation
Affirmation, a solemn declaration without oath; the being allowed to make it was an indulgence at first confined to the people called Quakers, and Moravians (9 Geo. 4, c. 32, s. 1; 3 & 4 Wm....
Oath
Oath [fr. ath, Sax.], an appeal to God to witness the truth of a statement. It is called a corporal oath, where a witness, when he swears, places his right hand on the Holy Evangelists. The...
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in...
Friends, society of
Friends, society of. See QUAKER.
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