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What does Quakerism mean?

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Noun
  1. The belief system of the members of the Religious Society of Friends, an ostensibly Christian religious denomination that began in England in the 17th century.
  2. (derogatory) A behaviour, belief, etc. that is characteristic of Quakers.
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Michael Haykin has researched the serious damage caused by Quakerism.
The Puritan clergy, in England and New England, greeted the rise of Quakerism with the fury that an old left often reserves for a new.
The achievement of religious toleration in the 1690s coincided with a quietist phase in Quakerism that lasted until the 19th century.
Quakerism looks on life as a whole: it cannot see religion as belonging to one department and reform to another.
And when they quarrel, what a Babel of words, and what a Quakerism of hands!
In his presentation on the Baptist sects, Weber explores the similarities between Calvinist doctrine and Quakerism.

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