| 单词 | gay quaker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgay Quaker 6. U.S. Amongst the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) or other (esp. nonconformist) religious groups: denoting a person who has ceased adhering to the plain and simple life or beliefs of the community; worldly. Esp. in gay Quaker, to go gay. Now chiefly historical.This sense perhaps arises from the idea that showy clothes are a mark of worldliness; compare use of to go gay in 16th–17th cent. quots. at sense A. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > unspirituality > [adjective] worldlyOE dryc1175 fleshlyc1175 of the world?c1225 secularc1290 timely1340 of hencec1384 uttermore1395 worldisha1400 profane1474 humanc1475 mundanec1475 mundial1499 carnal?1510 seculary1520 unghostly1526 worldly-minded1528 sensual1529 earthly-minded1535 civil1536 subcelestial1561 worldly-witted1563 secular-minded1597 ghostlessa1603 lay1609 mundal1614 non-ecclesiastical1630 unspiritual1643 wilderness1651 worldly-handed1657 outward1674 timesome1674 apsychical1678 secularized1683 hylastic1684 choical1708 Sadducee1746 gay1798 unspiritualized1816 secularizing1825 unreligious1832 secularistic1862 apneumatic1864 Sadduceeic1875 this-worldly1883 this world1889 1798 Aurora (Philadelphia) 6 Nov. 3/2 Her dress was pretty nearly that marked as ‘gay quakers’; she wore a white gown, white gloves, white..bonnet, green petticoat, and drab cloak. 1876 Ballou's Monthly Mag. July 90/1 Abner and Susan..were of the strictest sort of Friends, even in the Quaker City where all were strict, and ‘gay Quakers’ were as yet unknown. 1888 J. Gossler Turnpike-road 71 The attendance [at the Quaker meeting-house] was much larger fifty years ago... During the interval they have become ‘gay’, or ‘gone West’, or ‘over to the majority’. 1935 Amer. Speech 10 169/1 To go gay, meaning to become worldly in the sense of attending dances, card parties, or participating in other forbidden pleasures. 1969 Washington Post 9 Nov. g3/1 If an Amish young man enters the outside world—what they call ‘going gay’—his father is relieved of the obligation of providing a farm for that son. 1999 S. Bruce Choice & Relig. vi. 151 Early Quakers would not have read a novel or attended the theatre but the Gay Quakers (usually the offspring of wealthy merchants)..became more and more like the Church of England neighbours with whom they mixed as social equals. < as lemmas |
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