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Quakerish, a.|ˈkweɪkərɪʃ|
[f. as prec. + -ish.]
a. Of persons: Resembling Quakers in character or manners.
b. Of things: Characteristic of, appropriate to, Quakers.
1743in F. Chase Hist. Dartmouth Coll. (1891) i. 5 [He] made a great show of sanctity, by means whereof he was under advantage to propagate his Quakerish notions. 1787M. Cutler in Life, Jrnls. & Corr. (1888) I. 210 We were very Quakerish, every man attending close to the business of eating, without uttering scarcely a word. 1822Lamb Lett., to Bernard Barton xii. 113 Your plain Quakerish beauty has captivated me. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xxiv, I am your plain, Quakerish governess. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. I. 354 A motherly figure of quakerish neatness.
Hence ˈQuakerishly adv., ˈQuakerishness.
1785G. A. Bellamy Apology for Life (ed. 2) I. xiv. 80 Deceived..by the Quakerishness of my dress, (excuse the new coined word). 1886G. Allen Maimie's Sake xxxiii, So quaintly and quakerishly pretty. |