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  • adjective dated Suggesting or pertaining to the Quakers.

Etymologies

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Quaker +‎ -ish

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Examples

  • I always used to think when I saw the customary portraits of Franklin, with his spectacles and his Quakerish homespun garb and his bunlike hair, that there was something grannyish about him.

    Free and Easy 2005

  • I always used to think when I saw the customary portraits of Franklin, with his spectacles and his Quakerish homespun garb and his bunlike hair, that there was something grannyish about him.

    Free and Easy 2005

  • I always used to think when I saw the customary portraits of Franklin, with his spectacles and his Quakerish homespun garb and his bunlike hair, that there was something grannyish about him.

    Free and Easy 2005

  • That a breakaway group of nuns at her American-financed Pentecostal Mission school had preached Quakerish non-violence at her with heavy emphasis on turning the other cheek?

    the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • That a breakaway group of nuns at her American-financed Pentecostal Mission school had preached Quakerish non-violence at her with heavy emphasis on turning the other cheek?

    The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • Venturi's design was carefully inserted into its site on Broad Street, and its conservative exterior suited Quakerish Philadelphia, his home town.

    The Bilbao Effect 2002

  • Venturi's design was carefully inserted into its site on Broad Street, and its conservative exterior suited Quakerish Philadelphia, his home town.

    The Bilbao Effect 2002

  • I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • Quakerish elegance, about the rogue that hit my fancy on the spot.

    Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

  • You may easily guess from this letter that Bayard's school life was very sedate and Quakerish.

    Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans Sherwin Cody

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