Quaker-likeadj.adv.
/ˈkweɪkəlʌɪk/, U.S. /ˈkweɪkərˌlaɪk/ A. adj.
Like or resembling a Quaker; characteristic of or befitting a Quaker or Quakers.
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quaking1653
yea-and-nay1656
Quaker-like1657
friendly1671
Quakerish1678
Quakerly1684
Quakeristical1685
Quakerian1696
Foxian1821
Quakeric1847
1657 W. Thomas Vindic. Script. & Ministery To Rdr. sig. A2 How far he was from any such humane frame, his rough and Quaker-like Reply to my first Letter, did more then sufficiently manifest.
1786 J. Burgoyne Heiress iv. i. 70 A good smart girl; but not altogether quaker-like in her apparel, nor does her air quite answer my conception of a goddess.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 46 Her love of and veneration for truth was almost quaker-like.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. i. 5 A stiff cap of quaker-like simplicity.
1924 G. B. Stern Tents of Israel xi. 161 Toni's hair..lay in a heavy quaker-like plait over each shoulder.
1993 San Francisco Chron. 13 June 6/ z1 Beginning in 1904, hundreds of Russian Molokans (a Quaker-like sect) settled on Potrero Hill.
B. adv.
In the manner of a Quaker. Now rare.
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Quaker-like1682
Quakerly1697
Quakerishly1881
1682 R. Ware Foxes & Firebrands: Pt. II 103 in J. Nalson Foxes & Firebrands (new ed.) He..Quaker-like, thou'd and thee'd Oliver.
1705 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. iii. 14 They shall find, that, Quaker like, At second Blow we dare to strike.
1849 C. Brontë Shirley I. vi. 120 Moore, quakerlike, had replied with another query.
1949 J. A. Pollard J. G. Whittier vii. 171 Quakerlike, he would ‘deal with them in a spirit of Christian love and tenderness’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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