quaking

1) Words used pejoratively when referring to Quakers, the religious society founded by George Fox in 1648-50.

1656 quakeing and disgraceful speaches, West Riding

1662 as hee came from a quakeing meeting at Thorne

1723 he was a lying quakerly knave and wanted his bones breaking, West Riding.

spellings quakerly
dates 1656 1662 1723

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