Quaker
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkweɪkɚ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪkə(ɹ)
Etymology 1 edit
quake + -er; a name given to members of the Religious Society of Friends, supposedly by the magistrates Gervase Bennet and Nathaniel Barton, when George Fox "bade them tremble at the word of the Lord"; the term was previously applied to certain people who trembled or quaked during religious devotions.[1]
Noun edit
Quaker (plural Quakers)
- A believer of the Quaker faith and a member of the Society of Friends, known for their pacifist views.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 35:
- 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.
Alternative forms edit
Synonyms edit
- autem quaver (archaic cant)
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
believer of the Quaker faith
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
Quaker (plural Quakers)
- (video games) One who plays any Quake games.