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The sect is known as the Shaking Quakers, for their combination of a Quakerish faith in the individual spiritual experience and a worship style characterized by a feral sort of dancing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

It is a first-person narrative of Quakerish composure, slightly reminiscent of Marilynne Robinson’s work, about a woman who is a born writer, who carries the burden of the unspeakable: her childhood.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2018

“Don’t address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain, Quakerish governess,” Jane chides Rochester.

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2016

Both colleges have remained small, progressive, Quakerish in independence but non-parochial.

From Time Magazine Archive

“No, no, sir! think of other subjects, and speak of other things, and in another strain. Don’t address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain, Quakerish governess.”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë