Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Like a Quaker.
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Examples
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In pursuance of the same views, when reprimanding a boy, he generally took him apart and spoke to him in such a manner as to make him feel that his master was grieved and troubled at his wrong-doing; a quakerlike simplicity of mien and language, a sternness of manner not unmixed with tenderness, and a total absence of all "don-ish" airs, combined to produce this effect.
Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848
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; who, in quakerlike coat and homely gaiters, with an umbrella beneath his arm, presents a fine picture of a speculator "on 'Change."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 374, June 6, 1829 Various
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