Both Uses
Quakers
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The Devil and Tom Walker
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- Since the red men have been exterminated by you white savages, I amuse myself by presiding at the persecutions of Quakers and Anabaptists; I am the great patron and prompter of slave-dealers and the grand-master of the Salem witches.†
*Quakers = members of the Religious Society of Friends (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
- He even talked of the expediency of reviving the persecution of Quakers and Anabaptists.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(Quakers) a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)