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Primitive Friend
[ prim-i-tiv frend ]
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!”
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Primitive Friend1
First recorded in 1860–65
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