[f. as prec. + -ISM.] The principles or practice of the Quakers or Society of Friends.
1656. in Brand, Hist. Newcastle (1789), II. 235. A great apostacy … to popery, quakerisme and all manner of heresy.
1751. Chesterf., Lett., ccxxxi. Plainness, simplicity, and Quakerism, either in dress or manners.
1776–91. Paine, Com. Sense, App. Addr. Quakers, 81. The love and desire of peace is not confined to Quakerism.
1856. R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), II. XI. i. 214. The elements of Quakerism lie all complete in the personal history of Fox.
