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Meanings of Quakers in English
Portuguese
quaker 
A Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers.
Usage of Quakers in English
1
In this, she certainly had the example of other Quakers before her.
2
A fortnight ago the French Quakers held their 35th Yearly Meeting here.
3
Hitherto he was acquainted only with the simple worship of the Quakers.
4
Such is the organization of the discipline or government of the Quakers.
5
These irregularities were much exaggerated by enemies of the Quakers in England.
6
The Quakers also conceive it to be a doctrine of the gospel.
7
The Quakers to this day do not admit singing in their assemblies.
8
The extravagance of some of the early Quakers has been grossly exaggerated.
9
Fox and his Quakers insisted that sin was by no means inevitable.
10
The Quakers have as warm feelings as the rest of their countrymen.
11
They still refused to find the Quakers guilty of an unlawful assembly.
12
This soured the minds of the inhabitants, many of whom were Quakers.
13
The Quakers themselves confess, the Ranters are to be disowned, page 4.
14
Nor of the Quakers, the best of all, and abused by all.
15
As to the creed of the Quakers, we have seen its effects.
16
The early settlers of Massachusetts drove out Roger Williams and hanged Quakers.
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