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quaker

/kwey-ker/US // ˈkweɪ kər //UK // (ˈkweɪkə) //

贵格,贵格派,贵格会,奎克

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a popular name for a member of the Society of Friends.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The replaced woman, by the way, was Elizabeth Fry, a Quaker philanthropist who successfully campaigned for prison reform and better conditions in mental asylums in 19th-century England.

  • Humility, however, is one Quaker attribute that Pearson never exhibited — in his career or his personal life.

  • Edward Hicks included the arch in one of more than five dozen paintings depicting his Quaker fantasy of an Edenic “Peaceable Kingdom” on Earth.

  • Smith was said to have stressed the Quaker values of simplicity, plain-speaking and self-effacement.

  • Other producers, including the Quaker Mill Company, jumped on board, with several mills merging into the American Cereal Company in 1891, retaining the smiling mascot of a man in Quaker garb.

  • One was a Quaker school, whose name he can no longer recall, in upstate New York.

  • The Quaker Chewy Dipps Chocolate Chip granola bar is more than 40 percent sugar by weight.

  • A single packet of Quaker Maple and Brown Sugar instant oatmeal, though, contains a full tablespoon of sugar.

  • Quaker did not return a request for comment at the time of publishing.

  • A Modern Orthodox Jew, a Buddhist and a Quaker walk into…the Capitol?

  • They certainly were attractive specimens of their race, and the Quaker miller who offered them had a most benignant countenance.

  • I know a good farmer wouldn't let even a well-trained Quaker cow into his best meadow; even I know that!

  • Exchange bows, of course, if a Quaker will bow; but I'm too happy to-day to be disturbed by talk with him.

  • That splendid old Quaker gentleman has just left here, and has made me such a generous offer.

  • We learned this in conversation with a sweet-faced, quiet-mannered lady who had all the Quaker characteristics.

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