单词 | quakerize |
释义 | Quakerizev. transitive. To convert into a Quaker; to imbue with the qualities or characteristics of a Quaker or Quakerism. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Quakerism > [verb (transitive)] Quakerize1825 1825 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) II. 198 She is all over Quakerized, as you of course know. 1857 Times 21 Oct. 8/3 A generation Quakerized by uninterrupted trade and a forty years' peace. 1909 Iowa City (Iowa) Citizen 2 Aug. 3/4 No member of the new board would if he could Quakerize any of these. 1963 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 107 97/2 This kind of forest preaching was..not conducive to Christianizing or Quakerizing the Indians. 1990 Washington Times (Nexis) 11 May b6 The protesters want the company either to drop the ‘Quaker Man’ designation or ‘Quakerize’ the series with non-violent and egalitarian adventure stories. Derivatives Quakeriˈzation n. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Quakerism > [noun] > making Quakerization1864 1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 5 Dec. 5/3 No amount of quakerisation could render the car uncomfortable. 1904 Times 10 Nov. 4/5 I will not call it a quakerization of mankind..but it would be giving a licence to every one..to inflict upon others evils greater than that of war. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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