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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
Fox computed that there were seldom less than a thousand quakers in prison.
2
Wherever we have been, these Eastern quakers look grave, and jolly, and sleek.
3
They enjoy a happy state of mediocrity[Footnote: The quakers in particular.
4
The quakers who may be found there shall be whipped and imprisoned with hard labor.
5
The greater number were called in derision "ranters," and some "quakers."
6
In this, she certainly had the example of other Quakers before her.
7
A fortnight ago the French Quakers held their 35th Yearly Meeting here.
8
Hitherto he was acquainted only with the simple worship of the Quakers.
9
Such is the organization of the discipline or government of the Quakers.
10
These irregularities were much exaggerated by enemies of the Quakers in England.
11
The Quakers also conceive it to be a doctrine of the gospel.
12
The Quakers to this day do not admit singing in their assemblies.
13
The extravagance of some of the early Quakers has been grossly exaggerated.
14
Fox and his Quakers insisted that sin was by no means inevitable.
15
The Quakers have as warm feelings as the rest of their countrymen.
16
They still refused to find the Quakers guilty of an unlawful assembly.
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Quakers through the time