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Primitive Friend

American

[prim-i-tiv frend] / ˈprɪm ɪ tɪv ˈfrɛnd /

noun

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!”

First recorded in 1860–65

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