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Quaker Thought and Life
A religion of simplicity, justice & peace. Find it in Friends Journal!
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Quak⋅er

  [kwey-ker]
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–noun
a popular name for a member of the Religious Society of Friends.
Origin:
1590–1600; quake + -er 1

Related forms:
Quak⋅er⋅ish, Quak⋅er⋅like, adjective
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Quaker Thought and Life
A religion of simplicity, justice & peace. Find it in Friends Journal!
FriendsJournal.org
Cultural Dictionary

Quaker

A member of the Religious Society of Friends. The Quakers are a group of Christians who use no scripture and believe in great simplicity in daily life and in worship. Their services consist mainly of silent meditation.

Note: Quakers have traditionally been committed to pacifism.
Note: Pennsylvania was settled by a group of Quakers fleeing religious persecution.
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

Quaker 
1651, said to have been applied to them in 1650 by Justice Bennett at Derby, from George Fox's admonition to his followers to "tremble at the Word of the Lord;" but the word was used earlier of foreign sects given to fits of shaking during religious fervor, and that is likely the source here. Either way, it was never an official name of the Religious Society of Friends. Quaker gun (1809, Amer.Eng.) was a log painted black and propped up to look from a distance like a cannon.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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