quaker
IPA: kwˈeɪkɝ
Root Word: Quaker
noun
- A believer of the Quaker faith and a member of the Society of Friends, known for their pacifist views.
- (video games) One who plays any Quake games.
- Quaker
- (entomology) Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Pithecops.
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Examples of "quaker" in Sentences
- Quakerism is not a race or ethnicity.
- There are the Quakers, in the first place.
- It is still used for worship by the Quakers.
- It was intriguing to see the Quaker overlap.
- It would be their last game for the Quakers.
- Insidious Prophet says: tombaker says: the quaker oat guy?
- Benedict played for the Philadelphia Quakers in the season.
- In Britain and America, Quakers were active in abolitionism.
- During her convalescence, she converted to the Quaker faith.
- It also connotes superiority of the quakers belief in simplicity.
- The deeply religious Quaker family disapproved of the agnostic Weston.
- Would a stereotypical quaker family be a good foster care applicant in your estimation?
- The dial had no letter "q," and as the man was described as a quaker the word was sent "kwaker."
- United States had a "quaker" navy; the result being that, not the enemy, but our own people were deceived.
- In two of the embrasures shown in our Illustration are two of the famous "quaker" guns, made of logs, which the Con -
- The quaker was a London merchant, who had been at Deal superintending the repairs of a ship which had suffered by a storm in the Downs.
- If you had to choose between two applicants to be foster parents, would you choose the quaker family or a non-religious family that was relatively unremarkable?
- The quaker view that you are not supposed to swear oaths has some pretty obvious scriptural backing in the sermon on the mount, but I am unaware of any Christian denominiation at least that opposes the ninth commandment.