Quakerly adv.

[f. as prec. + -LY².] After the fashion of a Quaker.

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1696. C. Leslie, Snake in Grass (1697), 368. What Quaker, or Quakerly-Affected Council drew up this Answer for him?

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1826. Lamb, Lett. to B. Barton, in Final Mem., viii. 259. Do I write quakerly and simply, ’tis my … intention to do it.

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1847. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., II. 6. If you ‘feel a stop’ (Quakerly speaking), best to let it have way.

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