单词 | quakery |
释义 | Quakeryn. Now rare. = Quakerism n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Quakerism > [noun] quaking1653 Quakerism1656 Quakery1657 friendism1815 Quakerdom1824 1657 C. Wade (title) Quakery slain irrecoverably by the principal Quakers themselves, with a spiritual Sword of their own Forgery, whose names are here under-written. 1673 H. Hallywell Acct. Familism iv. 75 Quakery, though it pretend high, is mere Sadducism at the Bottom. 1688 J. Bunyan Heavenly Foot-man (1886) 156 Thou may'st stumble and fall,..both in ranting and quakery. 1722 Preservative against Slavery 23 To bear the same regard to..Puritanism, Enthusiasm, or Quakery, as to a decent Devotion and rational Piety, is not so much a Symptom of Christian Charity, as it is an Indication of Looseness, Irreligion, or Infidelity. 1816 A. Boswell Poet. Wks. (1871) ii. 176 One Barclay, they quote, Who on Quakery wrote; But our friend's of another persuasion. 1937 L. C. M. Hare Greatest Amer. Woman xi. 125 One prominent Quaker admonished Lucretia she must not expect to receive much attention from English Quakery..as they feared the dangerous tendencies of her doctrines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1657 |
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