Quakerist

Quakerist

English

Adjective

Quakerist

1. (uncommon) Quaker or Quaker-like.
   • 1981, Harold Bolitho, Alan Rix, Japanese Studies Association of Australia, A Northern prospect: Australian papers on Japan:

     From his second year at Haverford Arishima began to read Quakerist classics like the Journal of George Fox (1694) and works written about Quakerism like […] The Life of William Penn (1882).

   • 1920, P. Austin Nuttall, J. Wood, The Nuttall Encyclopedia, Library of Alexandria (→ISBN):

     DUNKERS, a sect of Quakerist Baptists in the United States.

   • 1988, M. Z. Farrukh, Thursday Notes:

     WASPS have a great churchgoing tradition, belonging as they do, to Baptists, Methodist, Quakerist, or even Calvinist or Lutheran congregations, and there is nothing like a maiden trained in complete submission to the will of her master.

   • 1997, Carol Berkin, First Generations: Women in Colonial America, Hill and Wang (→ISBN):

     Yet neither Pennsylvania's Quakerist tendencies toward gender equality nor Connecticut's legacy of radical Protestantism prevented these two colonies from sacrificing a widow's rights to commercial considerations.

   • 2017, Arthur Versluis, Platonic Mysticism: Contemplative Science, Philosophy, Literature, and Art, SUNY Press (→ISBN), page 38:

     Jones does attempt to differentiate Platonic from “New Testament” mysticism, in keeping with his Quakerist Protestantism, but for all that he is compelled to acknowledge that Platonism is the headwaters of all European mysticism.