Shakerism
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Shakerism
Example Sentences
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Amanda Seyfried stars as real life figure Ann Lee, the leader of an 18th Century religious movement known as Shakerism.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025
Shakerism is about gender equality, empathy and social unity.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025
“The appeal of Shakerism is not an easy sell,” said Brother Arnold Hadd, 65, one of two practicing congregants at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester, Maine.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
Though her quilt-patch separates have a handmade aesthetic quality that recalls Shaker clothes of the past, it is the philosophy behind them that is more directly drawn from Shakerism.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
But it is specially interesting to us as a disclosure of the historical secret which connects Shakerism with "modern Spiritualism."
From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey
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