Quakerly a.

[f. as prec. + -LY¹.] Like a Quaker; befitting a Quaker.

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1684. Goodman, Old Relig. (1848), 247. A malapert quakerly humour.

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

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1829. Macaulay, Misc. Writ. (1860), I. 284. They therefore affect a quakerly plainness.

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