quakerism
IPA: kwˈeɪkɝɪzʌm
Root Word: Quakerism
noun
- The belief system of the members of the Religious Society of Friends, an ostensibly Christian religious denomination that began in England in the 17th century.
- (derogatory) A behaviour, belief, etc. that is characteristic of Quakers.
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Examples of "quakerism" in Sentences
- To confess to you the honest truth, I felt a little more ticklish than usual, this evening, on the subject of quakerism.
- All of the organized religious movements, catholicism, judiasm, islam, taoism, quakerism and on and on are all male dominant.
- The ethical delineations of 'that noble and liberal casuist' (as Shakespeare has been well called) do not exhibit the drab-coloured quakerism of morality.
- Much of this, I dare say, is owing to my quakerism; and to that, unquestionably, I was indebted for the article in the _Edinburgh Review_, and the more recent passing notice in the _Quarterly_.
- In these sects there is found quietism, a kind of quakerism, pure morality, high teaching, sternest (almost bigoted) monotheism, and the doctrine of positive altruism, strange to the Hindu idolator as to the Brahman.
- The other lady passenger, with the gentleman-companion, was quite a girl, pretty and fair: her simple print dress, untrimmed straw-bonnet and large shawl, gracefully worn, formed a costume plain to quakerism: yet, for her, becoming enough.
- Plainness, simplicity, and quakerism, either in dress or manners, will by no means do; they must both be laced and embroidered; speaking, or writing sense, without elegance and turn, will be very little persuasive; and the best figure in the world, without air and address, will be very ineffectual.
- Because it was extended, not only to prelacy, but to popery, quakerism, and all idolatry, blasphemy, and heresy, which was highly provoking to the Lord Jesus, and prejudicial to the peace and purity of his church; contrary to the scriptures of the old and new Testament; contrary to the confession of faith and catechisms, chap. xx.
- Christian world; it is I, who, by slighting and slubbering over her holy service and sacraments, have scandalized and cast a stumblingblock before all the neighbourhood, to the great danger of their souls; I, who have been the occasion of this man's faction, that man's quakerism, and another's popery; and thereby, to the utmost of my power, contributed to those dismal convulsions which have so terribly shook and weakened both church and state.
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