Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Quakerism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Quakerism.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word quakery.
Examples
-
I thought it was gutsy of you to venture into forums and take on virtually all comers in defense of "quantum quakery."
-
So those angry folks out there who are salivating at the mouth to accuse others of "condemning someone to death by quakery" ...
-
Don Wise has created the ‘theory of incompetent design’ based off of the same ‘quakery’ that christians used to ‘disprove’ god created everything intelligently.
-
The collar of my coat appeared to stiffen, and the brim of my bat to expand, beneath its quakery influence.
-
She had been to Boston, and was there arrested by the authorities on account of her quakery.
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 Jasper Danckaerts 1898
-
It was at the garden party where she wore the thin quakery mousey dress and tiny poke bonnet that the Head of the House of Coombe first saw her.
The Head of the House of Coombe Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
-
The collar of my coat appeared to stiffen, and the brim of my hat to expand, beneath its quakery influence.
American Notes Charles Dickens 1841
-
I know you equally condemn the quakery (sic) of all churches, as much as you revere the sacred truths, in which we both agree.
Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e Montague, Lady Mary W 1724
-
While the amazingly deluded Judeo/Christian American evangelical movement assures it's blindly obedient sychophants that the 'synogogue of satan' are God's chosen; and, that the bolshevick anti-Christ rogue state sponsered and spawned by the usary bolstered crimnal Rothchild crime familly is a fulfillment of the prophetic pronouncements in accord with Jewish "fables", the TRUE interpretation of the very book they twist to fit their perniciuos quakery, is being manifested before their eyes.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED jackrabbit 2010
-
I have not problem with this decision. we need real medical treatments not quakery.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.