Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female Quaker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Pleasd with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously; 775
Walt Whitman 1900
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I suppose you know -- if you take any interest in that wretch -- that since he married the American quakeress he took his name off the _Warren Hotels Company_ and sold out much of his interest.
Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892
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Pleas'd with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet
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Lucretia Mott, the quakeress, the reformer, the world-renowned woman preacher of the day.
T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him Mrs. T. de Witt Talmage 1867
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Pleas'd with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855
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"Oh yes, it shall be such as will become a quakeress if you wish it; I will lose no time about it," said Mr Franklin, hurrying out of the room.
Clara Maynard The True and the False - A Tale of the Times William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
madmouth commented on the word quakeress
"But it was startling to see this excellent hearted Quakeress coming on board, as she did the last day, with a long oil-ladle in one hand, and a still longer whaling lance in the other."
Moby-Dick ch. 20
June 15, 2009