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Society of Friends

[ suh-sahy-i-tee uhv frendz ]

noun

  1. a strictly pacifist, nonconformist Protestant sect founded in England in the 1650s by itinerant preacher George Fox (1624–91). Its members are known as Friends or, more popularly, Quakers.


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Although relatively few in number in America, the Quakers, or the Society of Friends, had been leaders in America’s early antislavery movement.

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She was an artist who “absorbed the values of the Quaker Society of Friends,” according to her obituary.

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That was a veiled historical reference to the Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers, the liberal Christian sect to which William Penn, for whom Pennsylvania is named, belonged.

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The college was founded in 1887 by the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, but is secular today.

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The influence of a Quaker attorney willing to defend him pro bono sparked John’s conversion to the Religious Society of Friends.

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