shakers
IPA: ʃˈeɪkɝz
Root Word: Shakers
noun
- The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly known as the Shakers, are a millenarian restorationist Christian sect founded circa 1747 in England and then organized in the United States in the 1780s.
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Examples of "shakers" in Sentences
- There are not many movers and shakers.
- Formally they adhered to the principles of the Shakers.
- As the Shakers practiced celibacy, the colony faded away and was closed in 1889.