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  • noun archaic Quakerism

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Examples

  • Quakery! nope this isn't the Penguins annual physical.

    Archive 2008-08-24 Zen Tiger 2008

  • Quakery! nope this isn't the Penguins annual physical.

    T.V. : ADs - Medical Quackery PSA Zen Tiger 2008

  • The very same case is this; if thou gaze and stare after every opinion and way that comes into the world; also if thou be prying overmuch into God's secret decrees, or let thy heart too much entertain questions about some nice foolish curiosities, thou mayst stumble and fall, as many hundreds in England have done, both in Ranting and Quakery, to their own eternal overthrow; without the marvellous operation of

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

  • Quakery, to their eternal overthrow, without the marvellous operation of God's grace be suddenly stretched forth to bring them back again.

    The Heavenly Footman John Bunyan 1658

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