Hicksite

American  

[hik-sahyt] / ˈhɪk saɪt /

noun

History/Historical.

1. a supporter of Elias Hicks (1748–1830), an American Quaker and early abolitionist who preached a liberal theology that resulted in a great division between liberal and orthodox Quakers throughout the 19th century.

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Etymology

Origin of Hicksite

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35; from Hicks + -ite ¹

Example Sentences

Elias Hicks, the brave Abolitionist Quaker, was denounced as an Atheist, and less than twenty years ago a Hicksite Quaker was expelled from one of the Southern American Legislatures, because of the reputed irreligion of these abolitionist “Friends.”

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My ancestors were Quakers, and my grandfather a Hicksite Quaker.

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Behind the Quaker preacher, who would rather take his chance in the next world with Paine than with any man in New York, was following invisibly another of his family and name, who presently built up Hicksite Quakerism, the real monument of Paine, to whom unfriendly Friends refused a grave.

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Mary now reported that a distinguished member of the Hicksite Society, Mary Lock wood, had recanted in the same way as Paine.

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I told Walt Whitman, himself partly a product of Hicksite Quakerism, of the conclusion to which I had been steadily drawn, that Thomas Paine rose again in Elias Hicks, and was in some sort the origin of our one American religion.

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