Society of Friends

[ suh-sahy-i-tee uhv frendz ]

noun

1. a strictly pacifist, nonconformist Protestant sect founded in England in the 1650s by itinerant preacher George Fox (1624–91). Its members are known as Friends or, more popularly, Quakers.

Example Sentences

Although relatively few in number in America, the Quakers, or the Society of Friends, had been leaders in America’s early antislavery movement.

From Literature

She was an artist who “absorbed the values of the Quaker Society of Friends,” according to her obituary.

From Seattle Times

That was a veiled historical reference to the Society of Friends, better known as the Quakers, the liberal Christian sect to which William Penn, for whom Pennsylvania is named, belonged.

From Salon

The college was founded in 1887 by the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, but is secular today.

From Los Angeles Times

The influence of a Quaker attorney willing to defend him pro bono sparked John’s conversion to the Religious Society of Friends.

From Washington Post