Society of Friends

Noun

Meaning

a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers

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There has always been in the Society of Friends a group of persons pledged unswervingly to the ideal. Rufus M. Jones

Although his family had been Quakers for four generations, he was expelled from the Religious Society of Friends because his involvement with a military force contradicted his faith's pacifistic nature. Source: Internet

G. A. Russell (1994), The Impact of the Philosophus autodidactus: Pocockes, John Locke and the Society of Friends, in: G. A. Russell (ed. Source: Internet

David was enlisted by the Society of Friends of the Constitution, the body that would eventually form the Jacobins, to enshrine this symbolic event. Source: Internet

American Religious Humanist organizations that have survived into the 21st century include the HUUmanists, formerly the Friends of Religious Humanism, and the Humanist Society, formerly the Humanist Society of Friends. Source: Internet

Changing roles A woman publicly witnessing at a Quaker meeting seemed an extraordinary feature of the Religious Society of Friends, worth recording for a wider public. Source: Internet

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