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Primitive Friend

[ prim-i-tiv frend ]

noun

  1. a member of Friends in Christ, a sect of ultraconservative Quakers, mostly in the United Kingdom:

    When remotely located Primitive Friends write to ask where their nearest meeting is, we answer, “At thy house!”



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Word History and Origins

Origin of Primitive Friend1

First recorded in 1860–65

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