(n.) One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4.
(n.) The nankeen bird.
(n.) The sooty albatross.
(n.) Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
Example Sentences:
(1) That’s when the police riot squad arrived, because of course you cannot set fire to a bar with cops in it.” He recalled injured protestors being treated in nearby Washington Square Park and Quakers from the local church coming to help.
(2) The bar on religious weddings was meant to reassure the faithful, but the Church of England has twisted the weird and novel distinction between religious and secular marriages into an excuse to oppose the whole reform , while it is left to Labour's Yvette Cooper to speak for liberal Jews and Quakers who resent the continuing bar on them offering ceremonial equality.
(3) Although the UK's main churches oppose the reform, other faiths, including the Quakers, Unitarians and liberal Judaism, support marriage rights for gay couples and have said they would like to conduct the ceremonies.
(4) With Methodists , Quakers, United Reformed Presbyterians and many other denominations across the UK and the world taking action on climate change by selling off their investments in coal, oil and gas, the question is how great an impact will the moral authority conferred by religious groups have?
(5) In just three weeks Richard Harries, the former Bishop of Oxford, has set up a Commission on Civil Society , which has already held emergency hearings on the bill all round the UK, backed by Christian Aid, Women's Institutes, the Countryside Alliance, 38 Degrees , Oxfam, vegans, Quakers, the British Legion and scores more.
(6) has only had a couple of performances in Quaker meeting houses, but more are planned in the coming months.
(7) A computerized literature (MEDLINE) search and the Quaker Oats Co identified published and unpublished trials as of March 1991.
(8) Quakers and Unitarians already allow same-sex marriage, and the Methodist church last week agreed to revisit its stance.
(9) There’s a cosy shared kitchen that serves as an informal gathering spot, as well as a pretty, light-filled library, which is used for reading and weekly Quaker meetings.
(10) Francis used the history of the Quakers who founded Philadelphia to argue that Christians have a special duty to welcome all people of all faiths into a community united by brotherly love.
(11) Quaker Meeting House, Mon to 28 Aug Collisions Dance Company: Intertwine, Edinburgh Intertwine.
(12) His mother was an archaeologist and his father was an English teacher at a private Quaker school, Bootham, in York.
(13) David Lean, on the other hand, was raised a strict Quaker and was always in rebellion against restraint – so he was married six times and, on his own, he might have pushed Laura and Alec a degree or two further than made Coward comfortable.
(14) I think that one of Quaker schools’ strengths is that we do not believe we have a monopoly over the truth and actively encourage our students to question authority.
(15) She was a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), working with the Friends' Ambulance Unit during the war and with displaced persons in post-war Germany.
(16) They come from a world that is closer to David Cameron's Bullingdon Club than Dench's Quaker roots in Yorkshire.
(17) Between 2014-2016, the Friends Ugandan Safe Transport Fund , a US-based Quakers association, reports that they supported more than 1,800 LGBT individuals to escape Uganda.
(18) There were people from the trade union, the church, from Amnesty and the Quakers, too."
(19) And again I think of the most vivid symbol of this increasingly strange country that I might have ever seen: that shed at the bottom of a garden attached to what used to be a council house, where Quaker Court’s city trader goes about his daily business.
(20) When Carol Steele came to Rhamu, Kenya, in 1983 as a Quaker, Peace, and Service volunteer, there was little or no contact or cooperation between the Government Health Center personnel and the traditional birth attendants of the surrounding villages.
Quakerism
Definition:
(n.) The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of the Quakers.
Example Sentences:
(1) That’s when the police riot squad arrived, because of course you cannot set fire to a bar with cops in it.” He recalled injured protestors being treated in nearby Washington Square Park and Quakers from the local church coming to help.
(2) The bar on religious weddings was meant to reassure the faithful, but the Church of England has twisted the weird and novel distinction between religious and secular marriages into an excuse to oppose the whole reform , while it is left to Labour's Yvette Cooper to speak for liberal Jews and Quakers who resent the continuing bar on them offering ceremonial equality.
(3) Although the UK's main churches oppose the reform, other faiths, including the Quakers, Unitarians and liberal Judaism, support marriage rights for gay couples and have said they would like to conduct the ceremonies.
(4) With Methodists , Quakers, United Reformed Presbyterians and many other denominations across the UK and the world taking action on climate change by selling off their investments in coal, oil and gas, the question is how great an impact will the moral authority conferred by religious groups have?
(5) In just three weeks Richard Harries, the former Bishop of Oxford, has set up a Commission on Civil Society , which has already held emergency hearings on the bill all round the UK, backed by Christian Aid, Women's Institutes, the Countryside Alliance, 38 Degrees , Oxfam, vegans, Quakers, the British Legion and scores more.
(6) has only had a couple of performances in Quaker meeting houses, but more are planned in the coming months.
(7) A computerized literature (MEDLINE) search and the Quaker Oats Co identified published and unpublished trials as of March 1991.
(8) Quakers and Unitarians already allow same-sex marriage, and the Methodist church last week agreed to revisit its stance.
(9) There’s a cosy shared kitchen that serves as an informal gathering spot, as well as a pretty, light-filled library, which is used for reading and weekly Quaker meetings.
(10) Francis used the history of the Quakers who founded Philadelphia to argue that Christians have a special duty to welcome all people of all faiths into a community united by brotherly love.
(11) Quaker Meeting House, Mon to 28 Aug Collisions Dance Company: Intertwine, Edinburgh Intertwine.
(12) His mother was an archaeologist and his father was an English teacher at a private Quaker school, Bootham, in York.
(13) David Lean, on the other hand, was raised a strict Quaker and was always in rebellion against restraint – so he was married six times and, on his own, he might have pushed Laura and Alec a degree or two further than made Coward comfortable.
(14) I think that one of Quaker schools’ strengths is that we do not believe we have a monopoly over the truth and actively encourage our students to question authority.
(15) She was a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), working with the Friends' Ambulance Unit during the war and with displaced persons in post-war Germany.
(16) They come from a world that is closer to David Cameron's Bullingdon Club than Dench's Quaker roots in Yorkshire.
(17) Between 2014-2016, the Friends Ugandan Safe Transport Fund , a US-based Quakers association, reports that they supported more than 1,800 LGBT individuals to escape Uganda.
(18) There were people from the trade union, the church, from Amnesty and the Quakers, too."
(19) And again I think of the most vivid symbol of this increasingly strange country that I might have ever seen: that shed at the bottom of a garden attached to what used to be a council house, where Quaker Court’s city trader goes about his daily business.
(20) When Carol Steele came to Rhamu, Kenya, in 1983 as a Quaker, Peace, and Service volunteer, there was little or no contact or cooperation between the Government Health Center personnel and the traditional birth attendants of the surrounding villages.