Shakerism

[ shey-kuh-riz-uhm ]

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noun

1800–10, Americanism; Shaker + -ism

Millerism and Shakerism were also near relatives and neighbors.

It is for no man or woman's happiness or benefit that they should be condemned to Shakerism.

The curse of Shakerism on the Yakima Reservation is well illustrated in the following.

In some passages it seems like actual Shakerism, but the prevailing sense is that of intensified conjugality, a la Swedenborg.

She had supposed he would tell her she would break his heart; instead, he said, calmly, that she hadn't the head for Shakerism.

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