Quakerly

Quak·er

(kwā′kər)

A member of the Society of Friends.

[From quake (from an early leader's admonishment to "tremble at the word of the Lord").]

Quak′er·ism n.

Quak′er·ly adv. & adj.

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References in periodicals archive ?

Building on Fraser's critique of Jurgen Habermas's Enlightenment public sphere, Gray redefines the polarized terms 'public' and 'private' as 'acting in both competition and collaboration' or in a Quakerly turn of phrase, as '"fiends and friends"' (p.

Catharine Gray, Women Writers and Public Debate in Seventeenth-Century Britain

Dalit Christian theology as struggle against hegemony"; Elizabeth Grant, "AIDS--a curse of the spirits or a punishment from God?"; Paul Jenkins, "Quakerly thoughts on the unseen powers in African religious history, the essentially human, and Jan Vansina's intellectual history of the rain-forest peoples"; Geoffrey Johnston, "Presbyterians and the spirits of Japan"; Kirsteen Kim, "'Spirit and "spirits' at the Canberra Assembly of the World Council of Churches, 1991"; Alison Lewis, "'Joined-up writing'--the emergence of related scripts in Southwest China and Canada, 1825--1925"; Kathleen Lodwick, "Which Caesar should one obey?

Bibliography on mission studies

The collar of my coat appeared to stiffen, and the brim of my hat to expand, beneath its Quakerly influence.