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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 709 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUAKERS , originally a cant name applied in derision to the members of the Society of See also:

Friends, but now used without anycontemptuous significance. It was said to have originated in the saying of See also:Justice Bennet at See also:Derby in 165o, " Tremble (or quake) at the word of the See also:Lord," but it is now certain that it was used as See also:early as 1647, and arose from the See also:physical manifestations of religious emotion characteristic of many of the early Friends.

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