1684 J. Goodman Old Relig. ii. vii. 354 A malapert Quakerly humour.

1776 Lady A. Miller Lett. from Italy II. xxvii. 63 The cleanliness of the convent and its furniture was quite quakerly.

1797 L. Gurney Diary in A. J. C. Hare Gurneys of Earlham (1895) I. 66 I am quite sorry to see him grow so Quakerly.

1829 T. B. Macaulay Misc. Writings (1860) I. 284 They therefore affect a quakerly plainness.

1879 Church Times 21 Mar. 187/2 The Quakerly ‘simplicity’ which the Persecution Company is seeking to force upon so comparatively insignificant a matter as the Worship of the King of Kings.

1926 Amer. Speech 1 198 A member of the Philadelphia yearly meeting who wears a Phi Beta Kappa key hanging over her simple Quakerly gown.

1958 J. Sykes Quakers i. ii. 49 This is the basis of Quakerly action.

1997 Church Times 3 Jan. 5/2 I have my own Quakerly interpretation of these words.

1697 C. Leslie Snake in Grass (ed. 2) Suppl. 368 What Quaker, or Quakerly-Affected Council drew up this Answer for him?

1706 G. Keith Jrnl. Trav. New-Hampsh. to Caratuck 25 There have been, by modest Computation, at least two hundred Persons baptized of Quakers, and their Children, and Servants, and of such who were Quakerly affected, by Mr. Talbot, and Mr. Evans, and by me.

1827 C. Lamb Lett. (1935) III. 84 Do I write quakerly and simply, tis my..intention to do it.

1847 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 6 If ‘you feel a stop’ (Quakerly speaking), best to let it have way.

1864 Times 6 Aug. 10/3 Next arose the public discussion on the merits of Sir George Napier's administration at the Cape, on which Sir William wrote quakerly to Mr. Samuel Gurney.